On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Michael Pozhidaev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Jeremy! > > Yes, I had to look through freebsoft documents during the discussions of > ideas to merge speech-dispatcher with our russian server voiceman. > > In its current view it has some disadvantages and it is too large with > lot of detailes. It is basically designed for using TTS engines as > shared libraries and requires additional work to make it appropriate for > D-Bus. > > My suggestion is to start with minimal simple interface and extend it > later when new detailes become clear and appropriate for everybody.
Hello Michael, Yeah, that sounds like a good approach. I am interested in your software also btw. Is it open source licensed? Where could it be gotten from? As for how/where to get freedesktop infrastructure involved, others on the list will have to respond to that. I haven't had much luck in that regard (but I haven't exactly tried to push much in this regard either). thanks, Jeremy > >> Hello Michael, >> >> It seems there was some work done in this regard to define a tts api >> that providers could conform to. I don't recall if it was dbus based, >> but more information can be found here: >> http://devel.freebsoft.org/tts-api There is even a python provider >> implemtation http://devel.freebsoft.org/tts-api-provider but I'm not >> sure how fully developed it is. At the bottom of the api page it says >> discussion for the api takes/took place on >> [email protected] mailinglist. That may be a place to >> look for more background too. >> >> thanks, >> Jeremy >> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Michael Pozhidaev <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, everybody! >>> >>> I have the question about developing common interfaces for various >>> services. In Russia there is speech server used by blind people for >>> real-time generation text-to-speech. It takes commands like "say" and >>> "stop". Now this server uses its own protocol for client connections but >>> we have an idea to add D-Bus implementation to unify access to service. >>> >>> It seems to me it is a good approach to suggest common interface to >>> text-to-speech servers in org.freedesktop like we already have >>> org.freedesktop.MediaPlayer for every media player as any other common >>> interface for other type of services. >>> >>> As I got by searching in Google there is no common interfaces in >>> org.freedesktop for speech servers but there are some attempts to >>> process speech commands with D-Bus without any compatibility between >>> each other. >>> >>> I would like to suggest some basic view of the interface for speech >>> servers but I don't know what I must do for this work. I am ready to do >>> it, provide some basic implementation, listen different comments and >>> include improvements. >>> >>> Is any registration on freedesktop needed for this work or I can simply >>> present my suggestions here and follow the discussion? >>> >>> If I am wrong and there are any already existing interfaces, please let >>> me know. In this case I will simply add corresponding implementation. >>> >>> Thanks for any information! >>> >>> -- >>> Michael Pozhidaev. Tomsk, Russia. >>> Russian info page: http://www.marigostra.ru/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xdg mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >>> > > -- > Michael Pozhidaev. Tomsk, Russia. > Russian info page: http://www.marigostra.ru/ > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
