On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:16:05AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I'm starting thinking about _software_ speech synthesis in d-i. A > simple solution would be to use espeakup, which connects the espeak > software speech synthesis to speakup. That would however depend on: > > - sound kernel modules > - a libespeak udeb > > and the latter depends on > - a libstdc++ udeb > - a libportaudio udeb > - a libasound udeb > > Does it sound reasonable to debian-boot and maintainers of the > corresponding packages? (I guess that will take a few MBs on the > image...)
It's a shame that there seems to be no other viable solutions. Having C++ and PortAudio included in the installer really feels like an extra burden to me. Each new udebs is a source of extra work, and I am unsure if it would make sense to add new ones just for this. Is static linking out of question? Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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