> "LY" == Luke Yelavich writes:
LY> It is with an extremely heavy heart that I write to you all to
LY> announce my departure from free and open source software
LY> development.
[...]
LY> I am sure I will return one day, with renewed motivation,
LY> enthusiasm, and a desi
> "MR" == Michelangelo Rodriguez writes:
MR> I want to propose you greader, an emacs minor mode who,
MR> basically, provides continuous reading through emacs buffers.
[...]
MR> Greader offers more features, like timers, a "tired" mode
MR> (experimental), automatic de-hyphena
> "PD" == Peter Drysdale writes:
PD> I hoped that I would be able to at least get it to read the
PD> readme file which comes with the voice itself. Is this a
PD> dictionary or encoding problem?
It is an encoding problem. The file is in UTF-8 which Festival can't
handle. Czech t
> "PG" == Paul Gevers writes:
PG> I think for most, if not all, packages the a11y team is a good
PG> team to do the maintenance. I am not filing ITA just yet, but if
PG> nobody else steps in between, I intend to do so soon.
Good idea, thanks for help!
PG> Just to be sure: lo
> "PD" == Peter Drysdale writes:
PD> 2) I had not formed an opinion with regard to
PD> festival-freebsoft-utils. It would appear to lie right on the
PD> border between TTS and a11y programs which drive TTS.
I think it would be better to maintain it within the TTS group.
Familiari
> "PD" == Peter Drysdale writes:
PD> I also specifically ask if the retiring Czech voice maintainers
PD> would be interested in a short collaboration of creating 10-20
PD> minutes of sound files from representative texts of Czech to act
PD> as a Rosetta Stone for verifying the
I orphan and offer for adoption several accessibility packages:
- On behalf of Boris Dušek, the current sponsored maintainer, I claim
speech-dispatcher officially orphaned (WNPP bug #730983).
speech-dispatcher is an important package and someone should really
take it and maintain it properly
> "ML" == Mario Lang writes:
ML> There is an alternative impelementation, but I am not sure if it
ML> is actively maintained by its upstream still.
If you mean speechd-el then the current version is OK. I'd say the
development activity in recent years is proportional to the activity
> "ST" == Samuel Thibault writes:
ST> Halim Sahin, le Mon 21 Feb 2011 17:02:02 +0100, a écrit :
>> I can talk to Milan but he didn't respond to my mails during
>> freeze period of squeeze. I have already reported many of the
>> bugs regarding speechd-0.7 eg. missing libao supp
> "ST" == Samuel Thibault writes:
ST> Should speech-dispatcher perhaps recommend sox?
I don't think so, if there's no use for sox in Speech Dispatcher when
using vanilla Debian.
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> "ML" == Mario Lang writes:
ML> Milan: You might want to give this a quick look and maybe
ML> eliminate some of these warnings?
Yes, some of the warnings are new and relevant (they weren't present
when speechd-el was written) and should be eliminated. When there is an
opportunity t
> "TS" == Trevor Saunders writes:
TS> What's really bad about this is that all they had to do was copy
TS> code from alsaplay or aplay, they hardly have to write anything
TS> new at all.
I doubt it was that easy, there are some important differences between
requirements on audio
> "TS" == Trevor Saunders writes:
TS> However the main problem of the in alsa (I suspect its some sort
TS> of race) hasn't been fixed, and Braille Comm doesn't seem very
TS> interested in fixing it (its been around atleast since lenny was
TS> released).
AFAIK the upstream dev
> "MA" == Matt Arnold writes:
MA> I am using Debian default configuration, and get no speech
MA> output when the SPEAK command is issued from any client. I've
MA> tried spd-say, Orca, my custom client, and just plain
MA> openbsd-netcat. Sometimes it will output a sentence or
> "MA" == Matt Arnold writes:
MA> I've just migrated from Ubuntu, and speech-dispatcher is no
MA> longer working, at all. Not only my custom client, but spd-say
MA> as well.
This information is very vague, we need to know more to help you. What
version of speech-dispatcher packa
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. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
This is all configuration data needed to be supplied by the user to
build the browser.
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packages.
If you were desperate and wanted
JW> 4. To find an x86_64 version somewhere
I can compile the current snapshot and put it somewhere. But you'd
still have to resolve run-time dependencies.
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fault Python interpreter, the cited message is
probably harmless.
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>>>>> "KH" == Kenny Hitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KH> The build fails when it calls dh_lisp. What package contains
KH> this program?
dh-lisp
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ML> those have limitations of their own given the architecture they
ML> are based on.
It's probably not useful from the point of view of the Debian installer,
but speechd-el supports both speech and braille output too.
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Debian developer should talk to them whenever needed (i.e. about
everything what is not specific to Debian nor is just user confusion or
so).
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>>>>> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jrf> cat text_utf8.txt | spd-say -l es -e
This is right, Speech Dispatcher assumes UTF-8 input.
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. Is it a feature or a bug?
Input to what exactly?
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(de german)
jrf>(fi finnish)
jrf>(fr french)
jrf> (it italian))
jrf> No Spanish?? Is this only piece of code that needs patching? Is
jrf> just adding "es spanish" enough?
Yes (assuming you've got install
>>>>> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jrf> 2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS.
jrf> I tell them, but some of them won't listen :-) Has
You may need to reboot after changing the asound.conf file.
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bug report in such a case). I've no idea about voices that use
multibyte character codings.
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grades, actually it's better to
avoid them. Of course, it doesn't apply to areas such as accessibility
where there is nothing like a stable solution. But generally, as for
desktop areas, I prefer stable solutions (even) with slower release
cycles.
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Should we contact the maintainer and offer him to
co-maintain or take over the package? Anybody interested in this?
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>>>>> "ST" == Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ST> Orca is available too in package orca.
If you mean http://packages.debian.org/orca, it has nothing to do with
accessibility. Anyway, it would be nice to get its screen reader
namesake packaged f
>>>>> "ST" == Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ST> Although I don't have any hardware synthesizer, I might help for
ST> packaging speakup and the debian installer.
Hi Samuel, did you consider helping with the brltty package
and brltty packages
in unstable.
- Making the accessibility issues of debian-installer more visible in
this mailing list.
- Making the project goals more visible here as well (e.g. as you did
with your original mail) so that more attraction could be brought to
the pending tasks and the
seems to work well.
The only problem I've encountered was that it started with a very slow
speech rate. It repaired itself after I tried to select one of the
(unavailable) FreeTTS voices in the speech preferences dialog, it
started to speak at normal rate. After the next Gnopernicus sta
27;s a better way than to require having a hardware
synthesizer.
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bility, just suggesting it
might be worth to try KDE once it becomes accessible.
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ets?
>>
KH> Don't know for sure, but I think QT apps would have to be
KH> rewritten to use GTK2 before they would be accessible.
AFAIK, Qt 4 should support accessibility and AT-SPI, so the best
solution is probably to wait for a while before it gets released.
Reg
n package). Emacspeak and speechd-el both
speech-enable Emacs, but they are otherwise very different in their
philosophy and approach to the problem. I suggest anyone interested in
Emacs speech output to look at both of them.
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tely lost and/or want to get anything to start with, you can
look there.
Generally, the Freebsoft project would welcome if Festival supported
more languages. We can't help with creation of new languages directly
(unless we are provided with necessary resources), but I can hel
rating links2, for
LP> example.
Emacs w3m-el is probably much better than w3, though not perfect.
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