Common interfaces for speech services

[Jeremy Whiting]

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
accessibility at freedesktop.org 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 <msp at altlinux.ru> 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/
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