Common interfaces for speech services

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Michael Pozhidaev <msp at altlinux.ru> 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
>> 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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>
> --
> Michael Pozhidaev. Tomsk, Russia.
> Russian info page: http://www.marigostra.ru/
>