brailcom/speechd

Adding Spiel backend support

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#878 opened on Mar 17, 2024

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

From @eeejay :

It would be useful to be able to start speech syntheses from e.g. flatpak/snap containers to isolate them. The Spiel approach allows to easily ship syntheses this way, and connect to them through dbus.

Describe the solution you'd like

We could add to the speechd core support for Spiel, in addition to the existing modules support. Basically, a new implementation alongside output.c.

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Research direction
Study the existing output.c module and the Spiel protocol to understand how to integrate a new output module. Focus on the DBus communication layer and the speech dispatch logic.
Tech stack
c
Domain
audio video rtc
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3
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Clear
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C
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60