mimic1 RFE: add speech-dispatcher plugin

speech-dispatcher is a high-level device independent layer for TTS and is the universal interface that is used by GNOME and KDE for desktop speech integration.

https://devel.freebsoft.org/speechd

It supports a plugin interface so I believe a mimic speechd plugin would be a good initial integration for Mycroft/minic integration for general desktops.

Jan 09 '17 06:01 nullr0ute

Thanks for the suggestion, sounds like a good fit for mimic. Is this something you have experience with and would like to contribute?

Jan 09 '17 07:01 forslund

Sadly my level of experience is more at the distro maintenance level of speech-dispatcher. I'm the Fedora maintainer of it and have debugged and done small bits but no major feature development on it. There is a FLITE plugin so I'm not sure how diverged mimic is from that but it might be a useful starting point.

Jan 09 '17 08:01 nullr0ute

Yeah, the api hasn't diverged very much from flite yet so it will definitely be a good starting point. Thanks.

Jan 09 '17 12:01 forslund