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check bugs.gentoo.org, see if there is a bug already filed, if there is not, then file a bug asking for the packages to be upgraded... If you're feeling brave, you can create an ebuild with the upgrade. |
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We try to keep track of new releases on packages, but there are sometimes people may forget :) |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote: |
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:05:04 -0500 |
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> From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@×××××××××.net> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] default voice for the festival server |
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> Hi. Guess I was lucky because I fog speech-dispatcher and speakup |
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> working on my Gentoo box the first time. Now, if I could be so lucky on |
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> my Debian box. |
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> I've tried several possibilities for the AddVoice option in |
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> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.com with no luck. |
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> I'm still not sure if my problem is with speech-dispatcher or |
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> festival in server mode. Speech-dispatcher is the only app I have that uses |
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> the festival server. I noticed there has been a new upstream release |
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> of speech-dispatcher and festival-freebsoft-utils. So far, I've |
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> stuck to using only Gentoo packages. I'd like to stick with that |
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> as much as possible. What is the procedure for asking a Gentoo |
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> maintainer to upgrade their package? |
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> Btw, since festival can change to the first 3 voices it finds in |
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> /usr/lib/festival/voices/english/ I can delete don_diphone and |
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> rab_diphone to get us1_mbrola available. Then, I can change |
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> /proc/speakup/voice to 2 and get us1_mbrola. I'm using it now. |
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> The voice sounds better than software DECtalk or my AccentSA. |
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> Kenny |
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:23:32PM -0500, Jon Hood wrote: |
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> > Yes, mbrola-festival voices with speech-dispatcher can be very hard to |
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> > do. What you need to try first is cross your fingers and hope that this |
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> > is now properly supported- add the following to |
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> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.conf: |
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> > AddVoice "us" "male3" "us1_mbrolla" |
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> > or something like (may need a little editing), then go into |
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> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.conf and tell it to use the |
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> > male3 voice. This may or may not work and is not gentoo-specific; |
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> > DISCLAIMER: I have been working at this for a long time without getting |
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> > anywhere, so 2 people playing around on it now may help out ;). |
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> > -Jon |
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> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 07:00, Kenny Hitt wrote: |
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> > > Hi. I'm running a festival server so I can use the festival module |
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> > > in speech-dispatcher. I have the mbrola voices installed and working |
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> > > in a festival session. I have the line |
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> > > (voice_us1_mbrola) |
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> > > in my server.scm file. The server seems to use the first voice listed in |
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> > > /usr/lib/festival/voices/english |
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> > > instead of using the us1 mbrola voice. |
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> > > I'm seeing this on a Gentoo box running all Gentoo packages, so |
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> > > my problem might be Gentoo specific. I thought I would ask here |
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> > > in case anyone else has had this problem. |
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> > > Thanks in advance. |
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> > > Kenny |
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