Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: > Bill Haneman wrote: > >> Michael: >> >> You can use orca with DECtalk. To do so, you will need to rebuild >> gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and >> installed. I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the >> DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system when you build. >> >> I will leave it to Will to explain how to select a TTS engine in orca's >> preferences. >> >> >> > > Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing > reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or > technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask > our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available. > I believe the issue is that you can't build DECtalk support without the DECtalk headers, and we can't distribute those for legal reasons.
It may be possible to create a separate gnome-speech/DECtalk driver package, with a license other than LGPL (maybe BSD?) but I think this would probably require Fonix's explicit consent. Bill > > Henrik > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
