Hi all For those who weren't at the meeting, we discussed various aspects of implementation for the live CD, and the GUI install. A couple of issues were raised conserning the implementation of speech for gnopernicus. From further discussion with Daniel Holbach, it seems that there is more to do than first thought. The following is a summary of what has been discussed so far, including the first implementations, up to my conversation this evening.
* An option on the gfxboot screen was created for people to select
various accessibility profiles to be loaded when the live CD boots.
* One of these involves loading a screen reader with synthesized speech
for access to GNOME and the installer.
* The necessary settings for these profiles to be activated are not yet
implemented, but it was decided to put flite on the CD rather than
festival, due to disk space constraints, as flite is much smaller.
* It was determined that gnome-speech does not have a driver for flite,
so an alternate way of interfacing flite with gnopernicus was suggested,
this being to use a newly developed driver for gnome-speech to interface
with speech-dispatcher. Speech-dispatcher can interface with flite. This
would require either waiting for a new gnome-speech release, or patching
the current package with CVS code containing the speech-dispatcher
driver.
* Speech-dispatcher 0.6 has not yet entered Debian sid, and 0.6 is the
only version that the gnome-speech driver will work with. In order for
us to use it, we need to upgrade the package in universe to 0.6, and get
it promoted to main.
* In order to prevent festival from being pulled in when gnome-speech is
included, we need to split one or both gnome-speech drivers from the
core gnome-speech packages to prevent this from happening.
Speech-dispatcher itself doesn't have many dependancies, the biggest one
being flite.
* Daniel mentioned that feature freeze is fast approaching, and all this
needs to be packaged up, and tested on all three architectures.
So as you can see, this might be more difficult than we first thought.
Daniel, if I have missed anything, please bring it up or correct me.
Henrik, I am very interested in your opinion about all of this. If
anybody else has anything to say, please speak up, as we need to get
something sorted for the release ASAP.
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