Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-07 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Hubbs wrote: Hi all, app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. We currently have several bugs against this package, including one security bug. Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-07 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:56:58AM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: Hi William, Could you point me to a noob's guide to espeak? I cannot seem to get it to output any speech. voyageur on IRC stated that it worked for him via 'aoss espeak hello

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
Hello William, On Tuesday, June 5, 2007 06:25:07 AM William Hubbs wrote: app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. I don't really *need* festival from an accessibility point of view but I'm using it from time to time and find it quite useful. Once emacspeak

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It can also, Be used by kismet, but it's not clear whether there are strong bindings there, or if espeak could easily be substituted using kismet.conf. Dunno if that's useful or not, but there you go... Mike 5:) -BEGIN PGP

[gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-04 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. We currently have several bugs against this package, including one security bug. Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their software speech synthesizer,

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival

2007-06-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 23:25:07 -0500 William Hubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a reason to keep festival in the tree, Bug #163285 [1] has still not been resolved, and some arches have abandoned it without having keyworded espeak, which means that many arches still don't support