get current voice and volume APIs

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Monday 24 August 2009 9:02:45 am Shen, Xiaohui wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Does speechd have APIs that allow me to get the current voice and
> volume? I couldn't find such APIs from the online document
> (http://cvs.freebsoft.org/doc/speechd/speech-dispatcher_14.html#SEC44).
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> X.S.
> 

Xiaohui,

Unfortunately, no the speech-dispatcher api does not provide such 
functionality.  There is a patch on the mailinglist I created to add the 
ability to query the current module and voice (current volume would be easy to 
add) and you are not the only person to ask for such a thing (this would help 
greatly in my reworking of kttsd to use speech-dispatcher exclusively).  The 
tts-provider api has such information querying in it, but the project to 
implement tts-provider has not had much success yet. Luke Yelavich and myself 
have discussed adding to speech-dispatcher's api to make it a tts-provider and 
it would then have those methods needed.

Hope that helps, I think if nothing happens soon Luke will likely be asking  
the folks at braillecom to take over or at a minimum give him write permission 
to their git repo.

thanks,
Jeremy Whiting