Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2011-03-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Mon 31 Jan 2011 02:43:02 +0100, a écrit : > - I'm afraid the samples/ directory should be dropped from the .orig > tarball: as I understand it, they were produced at least by some > proprietary synthesizers (eloquence and voxin), so their distribution > is probably unsure.

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2011-01-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Bill, sorry for having deferred that so long. Here are a few comments: - I'm afraid the samples/ directory should be dropped from the .orig tarball: as I understand it, they were produced at least by some proprietary synthesizers (eloquence and voxin), so their distribution is probab

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-21 Thread Bill Cox
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Bill Cox, le Mon 20 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0500, a écrit : >> Now that sonic is lintian clean, is it likely that sonic will attract >> a DD sponsor? >> Is there any further advice you can offer? > > Just be patient.  We're all busy with the Deb

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bill Cox, le Mon 20 Dec 2010 17:00:00 -0500, a écrit : > Now that sonic is lintian clean, is it likely that sonic will attract > a DD sponsor? Sure > Is there any further advice you can offer? Just be patient. We're all busy with the Debian Squeeze release. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-20 Thread Bill Cox
Thanks again, Etienne. Now both the binary and source packages seem to be lintian clean, even with --pedantic. It turns out that I am losing central vision, which is why I volunteer for Vinux, and this is also why I wrote libsonic and why I'm am making it LGPL. I listen to books, rather than rea

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-20 Thread Etienne Millon
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:58:47AM -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > Hi, Etienne. I believe I've managed to fix all the issues you pointed > out, including lintian warnings about the binary packages. If you get > some time, I'd really appreciate it if you could look through the > package again. > > Bill

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-19 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Etienne. I believe I've managed to fix all the issues you pointed out, including lintian warnings about the binary packages. If you get some time, I'd really appreciate it if you could look through the package again. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-18 Thread Bill Cox
Hi, Etienne Millon. I believe I've finally succeeded in fixing all the issues that you pointed out, including in the binary package. If you get a chance to look over the sonic packages again, I would really appreciate it. Thanks for all the feedback. Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-m

Re: RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-13 Thread Etienne Millon
Hello, I am not a DD, so I can not sponsor your package. However, I had a look at your package and here are a few remarks. - can you provide a dget-able source ? You can use mentors.debian.net to host your package. - the source format is "3.0 (native)" but this package is not a nativ

RFS: new package for speeding up speech

2010-12-13 Thread Bill Cox
Sonic is an LGPL package for speeding up and slowing down speech. While not the only one in the Debian archive, it is the only one that has decent performance for speed ups of over 2X. This is very important in text-to-speech applications, where high quality fast speech output is very important to