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As a member of the TTS group, I have submitted ITA to some of the packages. I hope to discuss about the other packages with the TTS and the accessibility group. Any comments are very much appreciated. Details below: 2014-02-10 17:45 GMT+01:00 Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > below is a list of all speech related [1] packages that are currently > looking for a new maintainer. "speech related" is a perfectly correct expression :-) > > > > For some there already seems to be the intention to adopt them, but in > such cases please: > 1. follow the instructions at [2] and retitle the bug to ITA and > 2. try to make an upload soon Thank you for giving such clear instructions. We will follow them as soon as possible. > > > > This makes it visible that these packages are already being adopted, > and after adoption bug reports will be going to the new maintainers. > > For festvox-suopuhe-lj and festvox-suopuhe-mv the former maintainer > stated in the WNPP bugs that > The packages should be removed from Debian after the wheezy release > unless a new maintainer somehow materializes. > If noone wants to adopt them, it would be helpful to have a statement > in these WNPP bugs stating either that they are useless and should be > removed, or that there is value in having these packages in jessie. > > > The packages and WNPP bugs are: > I am not a Finnish speaker, but if these packages work we (TTS group) should probably adopt them. If the TTS group agrees I can create a git repository for them under tts/ umbrella. > > O: festvox-suopuhe-lj -- Finnish female speaker for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/474018 > > > O: festvox-suopuhe-mv -- Finnish male speaker for festival > http://bugs.debian.org/474019 > I think I am not able to test this package because I do not own any of the mentioned synthesizers. Is this package maybe more suitable for debian-accessibility? > O: emacspeak-ss -- Emacspeak speech servers for several synthesizers > http://bugs.debian.org/636409 > > > This package is recommended by speech-dispatcher, so we (TTS group) should probably adopt it, given that we have speech-dispatcher under TTS umbrella (if I am not mistaken): > > O: sound-icons -- sounds for speech enabled applications > http://bugs.debian.org/730987 > An ITA has been submitted to the following 7 packages in name of the TTS group: > O: festival-doc -- Documentation for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/699950 > > O: festival-freebsoft-utils -- Festival extensions and utilities > http://bugs.debian.org/730985 > > RFA: festvox-czech-ph -- Czech male speaker for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/730988 > > RFA: festvox-czech-dita -- Czech female speaker for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/730989 > > RFA: festvox-czech-machac -- Czech male speaker for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/730990 > > RFA: festvox-czech-krb -- Czech child speaker for Festival > http://bugs.debian.org/730991 > > RFA: festival-czech -- Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system > http://bugs.debian.org/730997 > I hope we can perform an upload soon and close as many bugs as possible. Thank you all for keeping an eye on this, Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGBo=GkdF_YksZ9rmZTsptUXuyYu=jiy+sqnlol5udrq2gi...@mail.gmail.com
