On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:51:18AM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Kenny Hitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi.  I just noticed the gnome-orca package in testing/unstable still uses 
> > gnome-speech for
> > output.  Upstream has switch to speech-dispatcher.  What are the current 
> > plans for Debian's gnome-orca
> > package?
> 
> I don't know, but I would recommend migrating ultimately to OpenTTS, which is
> a community-led and community-supported (with many bugs fixed) fork of
> Speech-Dispatcher.
> 
The reason I suggested speech-dispatcher is it's already a Debian package so 
little work will
be needed to make the change.
I've been watching the discussion about OpenTTS.  For now, it still
might be better to switch to speech-dispatcher.  Braillecom appears to have 
added most of
the patches from OpenTTS to the latest speech-dispatcher release.

> Gnome-Speech is to be deprecated prior to Gnome 3.0, as I recall.

Yes.  Fortunately, Squeeze will stay with Gnome 2.30.  It looks like Gnome 3 
will be
a regression in accessibility at this point.  We'll see what finally happens at 
release.
Work on at-spi2 appears to have slowed down recently.  Based on the release 
notes, there appears to be a lot of work needed
before it can replace the corba based at-spi.

          Kenny


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