William Hubbs ha scritto: > All, > > we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and > app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a > long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my > maintainer says that he has been unable to contact them). These > packages are very difficult to maintain, because of their highly custom > build system. > > In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used > software speech synthesizer. So, if there are not any objections, I am > considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree. > > So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what it > is being used for. If you use festival, can you reply to this thread > and give me an idea of how important this package is to you and how > often you use it, etc?
I don't know how essential it is, however LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio), one of the few usable sequencers for Linux, used Festival for its "singerbot" plugin. I just googled around and found that the plugin has now temporarily been removed upstream, but maybe it's worth checking if some other audio package is using Festival. m.
