fedora 7 comps change request (for festival)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 19:25:11 UTC 2007


Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> Not sure how to do this properly during the merge-in-transition phase. The
> updated Festival text-to-speech package breaks out the voices, requiring
> only one. The rest should be in comps somewhere.
> 
> Currently, festival is an optional package in "System Tools", and pulled in
> as default in "Gnome Desktop Environment" by orca.
> 
> I think we should default to also installing at least the non-accented HTS
> voices (giving two male and two female choices by default):
> 
>   festvox-bdl-arctic-hts 
>   festvox-clb-arctic-hts
>   festvox-rms-arctic-hts 

The problem is pulling in any one particular voice - does festival
pull in any voices by default?

> Probably somewhere better than "System Tools" -- "Sound and Video", maybe?

Text-to-speech doesn't sound right for sound and video.

Bill




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