Oden Eriksson wrote: > torsdagen den 13 februari 2003 22.08 skrev Buchan Milne: > >>Buchan Milne wrote: >> >>Well, for now I am making speech tools static .... speech tools is in >>contib, I have a festival srpm waiting on klama, and am just about >>finished with the voices and dictionaries ... (except for the plf-only >>bits). > > > Cool! >
Well, we are up (as you should see in the cooker changelog list) ... I still need to finish the PLF RPMs, which I think I will do over the weekend. But someone needs to test these. At present: # urpmi festival (or choosing festival in rpmdrake) Should prompt you for a choice of voice packages, and auto-choose the required dictionary packages. But, I have not managed to get festival to even start up without one of the kal voices (IMHO a bug ...). Also, it seems impossible to use the rab voice (British voice the depends on the OALD dictionary which belongs in PLF) without the don voice (not packaged yet). So I might need to change the deps a bit, but I want people who have used festival more to test this and see whether we need to depend on at least 3MB of unused voices. I have no interest in this, but festival also supports the mbrola voices (with a plugin), which can provide female voices and more non-english (German at least) voices. The whole mbrola suite (software and voices) is non-free (free for non-commercial use) so probably belongs in PLF. So, someone else might want to take a look, preferably a PLF-er. G�tz ? Details on a page linked from the festival home page. (BTW, anyone know why dead-keys do not work in mozilla? I now can not shorten words easily, and need to x-copy other characters from a console .. most characters work in kde apps, except double quotes which I do not get anywhere :-(. I think I am going back to non-international-US, stuff umlauts!) -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
