Adding Spiel backend support
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From @eeejay :
It would be useful to be able to start speech syntheses from e.g. flatpak/snap containers to isolate them. The Spiel approach allows to easily ship syntheses this way, and connect to them through dbus.
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We could add to the speechd core support for Spiel, in addition to the existing modules support. Basically, a new implementation alongside output.c.
You could also implement a spiel module and just treat spiel alike any other synthesizer. Either way this will be a quick win.
We'd want the different synthesizers provided by the spiel bus to look like more modules. I.e. a flat list, not a hierarchy that orca won't grok and would confuse users.