On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:12:28AM EST, Willem van der Walt wrote: > Hi Luke, > Thanks for offering to do this. > In general, as I read, I felt that "yes, these are the right things to > do". > There is one point where i am not quite clear on the intention: > Your document says: > > Speech-dispatcher should then be able to request punctuation information > from the speech synthesizer driver in use, and make a decision based on > what the speech synthesizer can do and handle in terms of punctuation. > > You later refer to the need for drivers to be written for > the synthesizers currently handled by the generic module. > I do agree, but also want to ask for the retention of the generic module. > Not only has it saved my life in the past, but also allow for a lot of > flexibility when one is working with half-developed synthesizers. > As this is something I often do, this is important to me. > As you know, espeak saw its first use through speech-dispatcher's generic > module, and I > think as a result got more testing and exposure than it would have gotten > if a driver first had to be written. > Telling the generic module of SD to report on behalf of the generic > synthesizer about the punctuation behavior should be easy through some > options in the module-specific config file, but other behavior might pose > problems, making dropping the generic module tempting. > May be, you could add one sentence to make the intention clearer in this > regard.
The sd_generic module will never go away. It is very useful for the exact reasons you state, and allows someone to quickly get a speech synthesizer working that has a command-line utility etc. With the move to speech-dispatcher, I dare sayt eh proprietary synthesizers will have to be used in this way, till proper drivers are written. As for the punctuation points, I'll re-read and attempt to clarify what I mean, thanks for the pointer. > My second point, not quite so dear to my hart, concerns a special driver > for supporting the proprietary SAPI5 synthesizers. > I am aware that here might be both technical and legal issues, but > mention the driver since you are having a hard look at SD and I think > having a driver like that can be very useful in some circumstances. I am wellaware of this development. Since this uses wine, and so far as I know not all distributions ship wine by default, this will have to be an optional install somehow. When the driver is in a more usable state, I'll have a look at it, and see how the pieces fit together. This will likely be very easy however, since I want to allow drivers to be built outside the speech-dispatcher source tree. Luke
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