Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:37:50 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome-speech supporting alternative synthesizers Message-ID: <44871CFE.20207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c689fc$ab0233d0$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000301c689fc$ab0233d0$0200a8c0@satellite>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave wrote: > Hello, > First of all please forgive the cross-posting, freebsd.org/gnome > showed one email, while make maintainer in > /usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech showed another. > My name is Dave. I'm a user and a system administrator of FreeBSD > currently with only 5.x and 6.x systems. My primary use has been in the > configuration, deployment, and utilization of servers, however i'd like > to replace some Linux desktops with FreeBSD. I am visually impaired so > in this role i would utilize x-windows and gnopernicus. This combination > i have working quite well on a testbox my one problem is the quality of > the festival speech i find difficult to understand for longterm daily > use. On a Linux box when one wants to add an additional synthesizer one > has to recompile the rpm, source tarball etc. of gnome-speech with the > appropriate module added-in. So i took a look at the gnome-speech > makefile and specifically the festival example. I'd like to see if i can > get gnome-speech going with other synths, specifically one already in > ports audio/flite and two commercially available synths: Ibm's TTS > formerly known as Viavoice info at: > http://ibmtts-sdk.sourceforge.net/ > and Fonix's dectalk: > http://www.digibuy.com/cgi-bin/product.html?1118982230388. > My theory is i should be able to get these going using linux binary > emulation. I realize both of the above are commercial, and i have not > looked in to any legal or distribution issues, as of now i'm simply > doing this as a feasibility study and to improve accessibility. If i do > get this working would you be interested in a patch to the Makefile to > pull in these additional synths if found, or use the new makefile > options facility so that an interested end-user can select the desired > synth. My thinking on the commercial aspect is treat them as the Sun > JDK, downloadable files only, where the user has to purchase the synth > from the company providing it, load linux binary emulation, drop the > tarball in, and install or reinstall gnome-speech to have the the new > synth registered. As long as the mandatory dependencies for gnome-speech do not change, then I have to problem with patches that make using gnome-speech easier. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEhxz+b2iPiv4Uz4cRAsoOAJ4kwasGLaecAoY41BJ0vftLlJ19KQCeO0OX wPLIjexCyuBWuresTgIvRtY= =bwcR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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