Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paolo Greppi <paolo.gre...@libpf.com>
* Package name : pico2wave Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Paolo Greppi <paolo.gre...@libpf.com> * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/paolog-guest/pico2wave * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : command line text-to-speech converter pico2wave is a command-line utility to convert text to speech using the SVOX Pico engine. It accepts the text either on the command line or from stdin, and writes to a WAV file. The pico2wave utility is already available in debian. The binary ATM is somewhat confusingly provided by libttspico-utils. AS per https://bugs.debian.org/883156, svox version 1.0+git20130326-8 already includes my patch to support stdin, albeit up to 32767 characters. The idea is to separate the libttspico-utils binary package from the svox source package. In this way it will have its own version number, plus the code would not be in a patch but in plaintext. It will produce a new binary pico2wave and a transitional libttspico-utils as per: https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages The plan is also to overcome the 32767 characters limitation by: 1. breaking up the text in chunks of < 32767 characters using some sort of elementary Sentence Boundary Detection algorithm 2. process the chunks in the synthesis loop sthibault has agreed to sponsor the upload. Paolo
