[PATCH 4/7] replace EVoiceType with SPDVoiceType

[Andrei . Kholodnyi]

> 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.

yes, however in the current implementation we map SPDVoice type  
individually for each module,
whereas IMO we should map it to all voices present in SD, apps do not need  
to know about modules.

> 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.

I'm sure Chris has a good proposal in mind that could be a basis for  
discussion.

Andrei.
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