Bill Nottingham writes:
Janina Sajka (janina(a)rednote.net) said:
> However, on a related note, we should default gnome-speech to espeak
> rather than festival. This is especially cool for orca users inasmuch as
> espeak is now built against alsa via portaudio 19--which is there in
> F-8. As previously discussed among some of us, this should be done via
> breakout packages for particular speech engines, e.g.
> gnome-speech-espeak. I believe this is what I see in the development
> repository, but I'm unclear whether festival is similarly broken out,
> and deprecated from its default in gnome-speech status.
gnome-speech requires festival - there is a separate gnome-speech-espeak
if you want espeak. But festival will still get pulled in.
Do you think festival should be made optional for F9 (it's probably
too late for F8).
Yes, definitely. Festival wasn't designed in a way that makes it a good
choice for screen reader use. Now that we have a reasonable sounding tts
engine with a license we can all support, we should default to it. It's
also in active development, so continuing to improve specifically for
the screen reading task. And, I think it's the only tts supporting alsa
natively.
I think this is a no brainer.
PS: There's even a Latin voice in espeak!
The value to breaking the tts into a separate gnome-speech-[engine.name]
package is that it allows users to add or subtract additional tts
engines without running into dependency issues. For instance, I can then
build a gnome-speech-ttsynth (a proprietary engine much used) and
include a compat-libstdc++-2.96 dependency, which only applies to
TTSynth. While it's possible to ship a gnome-speech-ttsynth, because IBM
put the headers into BSD license, there are other engines that people
will want which aren't yet there.
Janina
Bill
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