Public bug reported: This feature concerns gnome-speech and potentially any other speech driver managing a proprietary voice synthesizer.
If a user wishes to install a proprietary voice synthesizer, the process is not really straitghtforward: she will install specific libraries, modify configurations files, re-compile the speech driver, etc... GNU/Linux distro could offer a pre-compiled package; the main issues are legal issues. The user could "reconfigure" the speech driver package once her proprietary software is installed. This feature is offered in the Emacspeak Debian package by James R. Van Zandt. ** Affects: gnome-speech (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Easy install of proprietary voice synthesizers https://launchpad.net/bugs/82098 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs