[Xastir-dev] several unrelated ideas

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Owen DeLong wrote:

> In general, on almost any platform, speech is a crufty thing.  I think that
> separating speech (and other audio output for that matter) out to a daemon
> and queuing noise over a socket makes good architectural sense overall,
> regardless of platform.

The only problem is done properly, I'd be rewriting the festival daemon or
a whole new networked protocol, and it doesn't seem worth the work for
something i mean only to be used by Xastir (I explicitly don't want to
make something that will solve a generic set of problems)