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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:25 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. |
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Does not look like they have declared it dead however. |
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> We currently have several bugs against this package, including one |
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> security bug. |
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I attached a patch to the security bug for you guys. |
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> Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their software |
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> speech synthesizer, and the new version of emacspeak (version 26, which |
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> will be in portage pretty soon) can support espeak, I would like to know |
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> this. |
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> Once emacspeak 26 is in the tree, I would like to move festival out of |
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> accessibility, or remove it from the tree. |
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One thing to note here is that espeak is only marked stable on amd64 |
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while festival is marked stable on mips ppc amd64 ppc64 sparc |
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ia64 alpha hppa x86. Removing it from the tree does not seem like |
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an ideal alternative any time soon. |
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> If there is a reason to keep festival in the tree, |
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> can someone please contact me and take over the package? |
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I don't want to take it over. But I've used festival and friends often |
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in the past for lazy reading days. I know it's also used supported |
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by asterisk and a few other programs. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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