Re: FYI: gnome-speech is deprecated

2011-07-06 Thread Bill Cox
Writing speech-dispatcher TTS drivers is waaay too hard. Over 1,800 lines of multi-threaded madness for the espeak driver. This is why we don't see new TTS voices supported, even when they are available as Debian packages. Bill On 7/6/2011 4:43 PM, Halim Sahin wrote: Hi, There is currentl

Re: FYI: gnome-speech is deprecated

2011-07-06 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
I'm thinking of making a speechd-up package. Maybe I will see also other sreed-related packages. I hope to manage to do something before the end of summer. Regards, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL Le mercredi 06 juillet 2011 à 22:43 +0200, Halim Sahin a écrit : > Hi, > > There is currently no native dri

Re: FYI: gnome-speech is deprecated

2011-07-06 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, There is currently no native driver in speechd for dectalk or swift. the soft dectalk and swift are only support through the generic driver of speechd. That driver has many limitations but it should talk :-). The latest source (unstable) from git has also a svox pico driver. The big question

Re: FYI: gnome-speech is deprecated

2011-07-04 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 15:41 +0200, Mario Lang a écrit : > Hi. > > Do the speech-dispatcher maintainers plan to support non-free speech > backends in the Debian packaging? I believe upstream specch-dispatcher now ships these speech synthetisers. I hope a Debian package, even in nonfree, wil

FYI: gnome-speech is deprecated

2011-07-04 Thread Mario Lang
Hi. Prompted by the recent post about gnome-speech-swift, I wanted to remind people that gnome-speech is going away in the foreseeable future. This is one of the CORBA-deprication casualties. This also means that support for swift, ibmtts and dectalk software backends will go away as well. I ha