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All, |
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we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and |
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app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a |
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long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my |
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maintainer says that he has been unable to contact them). These |
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packages are very difficult to maintain, because of their highly custom |
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build system. |
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In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used |
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software speech synthesizer. So, if there are not any objections, I am |
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considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree. |
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So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what it |
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is being used for. If you use festival, can you reply to this thread |
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and give me an idea of how important this package is to you and how |
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often you use it, etc? |
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William Hubbs |
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gentoo accessibility team lead |
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williamh@g.o |
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