Oden Eriksson wrote:
> torsdagen den 13 februari 2003 10.49 skrev Buchan Milne:
>>
>>Hmmm, just when I went and made the festival srpm have seperate binary
>>packages, and had it ready to upload!
> 
> 
> Hey, as long as it works.
> 

I would prefer to have working headers. I do not know if there are apps
that use the libraries (many seem to just pipe text into festival
--tts), but if there are we might as well do it now.

>>OK, I have now working voices (festvox, to use the name of the tarballs)
>>and dictionary (festlex, same reason) packages. All festvox packages
>>provide festival-voice (and some more such as festival-voice-english,
>>festival-voice-en_UK etc), and festival requires festival-voice. The
>>voice packages require the dictionary packages they need. urpmi prompts
>>to choose the festvox package, only thing is it seems festival does not
>>start up without the kal diphone, so I might have to require that. Just
>>need to split off the non-free voices into a seperate srpm and we are
>>ready ...
> 
> 
> Cool!
> 
> To be honest it sounds like greek to me as I don't know how to use any of this 
> stuff... Do we have any blind listeners and experts here who could shed some 
> light on this festival stuff?

On the plf list is someone working on the accessibility stuff in KDE who
also requested this go into contrib, so I think he should be able to
test ...

> 
> 
>>But I will take a look at the pld stuff now ...
> 
> There where some interesting patches in there.
> 

I am more interested at the moment in their scripts to fix the #includes
in festival to make it compile against speech tools headers ...

Buchan

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