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William Hubbs wrote: |
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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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Wasn't they going to put speech software on the install CD? I read they |
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was on -dev a while back. If this is not stable and being maintained, |
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how they going to put it on the CD? |
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I tried it once, it was cool sounding. Sounded like the voice on War |
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Games, the old movie. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |