hi all
Sorry I forgot to post this hear before now, I'm still catching up after
the holidays. I've been a little quiet hear lately, other than my little
rant about chrome, lol. I'm planning to be a lot more active in the
fedora community than I have been, mostly because I like fedora's stance
on free software, and because you guys really take accessibility
seriously. Back on point, the espeak <http:// espeak.sf.net> text to
speech synthesizer was forked about a month ago by reece dunn, the
developer of espeak for android. I have already gotten this added to the
manjaro linux distro, which my linux distribution, sonar, is based on.
The new program is called espeak-ng, the ng standing for next
generation. I would like to eventually get the espeak package in fedora
changed to espeak-ng. There is a problem though. Espeak-ng has not yet
had a formal release. Reece is planning to release one "soon", although
no definite date on when "soon" is, so I'm not sure when to file a
ticket for this. You can check espeak-ng out at,
http://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng.git. The fork was done mainly
because multiple people, me included, have tried getting in touch with
espeak's main developer, johnathan duddington, some going as far as to
get his home address in the UK and his phone number, both of which no
longer seem to be valid. Internally there have been a ton of changes
that make espeak-ng better, most of them well over my head. Espeak-ng
now uses the standard autotools build system, and autodetects your audio
environment so there's no need to specify this stuff in the spec file.
It uses a c99 compiler, whatever in the world that is, lol. My questions
are these. Should I wait until espeak has had a formal release, which
will start out at 1.49.0, continuing the espeak release numbering
scheme, before requesting a package review? I'll need to see if I can
build an rpm spec file that will successfully build and compile first.
I'm not very experienced in this, and as some of you will remember, had
a hard time figuring out on the irc channels. Second, if espeak-ng is
adopted, could this be backported to all supported fedora releases? I'm
not sure if espeak itself, not espeak-ng, will see any further
development, but I doubt it. I'm still new at packaging things for
fedora, so I apologize for all the questions. Espeak-ng will of course
maintain the same license as espeak itself, which is gpl3 or later. I
wouldn't recommend packaging espeak-ng for fedora just yet, since it's
in a state of flux at the moment and sometimes won't build. Any help
would really be appreciated. I am a member of fedora, although I'll have
to try to remember my account info to log in, if I need to file
anything. Any wiki docs would help too, since i don't want to burden
anyone with info that's already available elsewhere that I can read.
Thanks for reading
Kendell clark
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