Bill Nottingham writes: > Janina Sajka (janina@xxxxxxxxxxx) 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 > > -- > fedora-test-list mailing list > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@xxxxxxxx Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxx Linux Foundation http://a11y.org -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
