[PATCH 4/7] replace EVoiceType with SPDVoiceType

[Andrei Kholodnyi]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Hynek Hanke <hanke at brailcom.org> wrote:
> There are practical considerations however. The modules/TTS systems are not
> different just in the voices, but in their capabilities, ways of handling 
> things etc.
> SSML defines a (very useful and needed) possibility to switch language/voice
> inside the piece of text being processed. It is not however possible to 
> switch TTS
> systems inside text (because of earlier stages of processing like prosody 
> etc.)

well, we can parse SSML for the voice tags, and then send text to one
or another synth,
I do not see any problems with. But of cause the same tts engine will
produce better results.

> and because of the different capabilities.

IMO, one of the SD's goal is to hide the difference in capabilities.
But I'm fine for now with the current approach: module/languages

> Thus the voices selected in SSML would be mapped to different physical
> voices than the ones selected in SSIP, although the selection criteria would
> be the same. This is inconsistent and confusing.
This I didn't get, I guess I have answered it above.

> Further, I think the whole idea of having different concurent TTS systems
> for different voices languages is not really technically justified on the
> Free Software platform.

ok, I have a different opinion.