I wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Sort of a catch-22, because there are quite a few BLFS packages that >> rely on Java so we really need it in the book, but you say it must >> go..... > > If you are talking also about FreeTTS: is it possible to replace it with > Espeak?
Another Java-free alternative is Flite. According to the description in BLFS, Flite and FreeTTS should sound identically. Flite is English only, and needs patches in order to compile without errors and to use ALSA output instead of OSS: http://dialogpalette.sourceforge.net/extras/flite-1.3-sharedlibs.patch and http://dialogpalette.sourceforge.net/extras/flite-1.3-alsa_support.patch -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
