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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:23:55AM -0500, Penguin Lover William Hubbs squawked: |
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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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I use festival more from a hobbyist point of view rather than |
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accessibility necessity. I played around with voice interaction a |
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while back and back then festival was pretty much the only good |
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option. |
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Considering that most of what I did was hacked-together perl and shell |
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scripts, looking at espeak.sf.net I see that using espeak as a drop-in |
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replacement won't be too difficult. |
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Thanks for keeping us (the users) in touch. As to your question: as |
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long as festival is not the only software that supports the |
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text-to-speach function (and it is not, as you pointed out), I won't |
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complain if you see it as dead upstream and trim it from the tree. |
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Physics: a liberal arts on steroids. |
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~Prof. Peter Meyers. |
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