[PATCH 4/7] replace EVoiceType with SPDVoiceType

[Tomas Cerha]

Dne 4.11.2010 15:03, Andrei Kholodnyi napsal(a):
>> It would be nice if we could do away with "synthesis voice" entirely,
>> but we can't.  I'd say that if a client specifies an explicit synthesis
>> voice, then this overrides any other voice selection.
>> Thoughts?
> 
> it is a good topic for discussion, would you mind writing an RFC?
> I'd rather remove SPD_MALE1 type completely
> and let apps to discover and use available voices :D

The predefined symolic voice names were meant as a sort of abstraction.  The 
idea was
that the user would be able to map them to available voices without requiring 
the ATs to
deal with that.  I am not sure how much that concept got adopted, but I believe 
that at
least speechd-el uses it.  Could, please, Milan say, whether it proved to be 
practical
or not?  Otherwise I would not be strictly against removing it in favor of 
direct
synthesis voice manipulation, since it really seems to be more practical.  The 
only my
concern would be compatibility.

Best regards, Tomas