hi all This is my first fedora packaging question. I'd like to update, or help someone update the espeak package in fedora to use a different repository other than the sourceforge one maintained by the espeak developer. THis is because of a few reasons, mainly: 1, the git repository I'd like to use uses a modern autotools build system that autodetects all of the things necessary to build espeak and work properly with both pulse audio and port audio, rather than having to modify and uncomment the makefile. 2: it provides some additional varients, which are differently sounding voices that are not included in the stock espeak, but do come with the windows NVDA screen reader, which apparently a lot of blind people use. 3: and this is most important, it includes support for building the extended dictionaries needed to support chinese and russian languages, if the appropriate options are added to the ./configure line. I'm still very new to fedora packaging and obviously can't upload my own packages, but it should be a simple fix and should clean up thespec file considerably. The git repository is located at, http://github.com/rhdunn/espeak.git. Would anyone be willing to modify the spec file to use this repository for all supported fedora releases? I'm only asking because I've been getting requests to make espeak speak russian and chinese and attempting to make the stock version do it is nearly impossible. Reese dunn's autotools system builds the dictionaries form source, whereas with the current stable version from sourceforge you need to download and copy the dictionaries into the proper place, /usr/share/espeak-data. Even after doing this, espeak errors out with a "wrong dictionary version" error and won't use the dictionaries. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc? I'm still new to the fedora community and I'm not sure if there are any procedures that need to be followed, package review requests, etc. Thanks Kendell clark . -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
