[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'speech'

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'speech'

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

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Used by 7 packages.

Description: "Enable text-to-speech support"

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] [RFC] New global USE flag 'speech'

[Michał Górny]

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On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 16:52 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Used by 7 packages.
> 
> Description: "Enable text-to-speech support"

I see one package using 'tts'.

There are also USE=speech uses that aren't clear whether they do match
or not.  If not, we should rename them to use something else.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] [RFC] New global USE flag 'speech'

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

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On Monday, 13 April 2020 18:01:42 CEST Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 16:52 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> > Used by 7 packages.
> > 
> > Description: "Enable text-to-speech support"
> 
> I see one package using 'tts'.
> 
> There are also USE=speech uses that aren't clear whether they do match
> or not.  If not, we should rename them to use something else.

All existing users of speech (outside of KDE proj) are probably fine or would 
benefit from a better description anyway:

app-accessibility/brltty - 'speech support'
games-engines/scummvm - enable text-to-speech support through ...
gnustep-base/gnustep-gui - Audio support using app-accessibility/flite
media-sound/mumble - Enable text-to-speech support in Mumble.
net-im/kadu - Enables speech module
net-misc/eventd - Enable plugin for Text-To-Speech support
net-wireless/kismet - Audio support using app-accessibility/flite

There is some inconsistent existing use wrt 'espeak' and 'flite' - both are 
imo fine when used to refer to the specific implementation, as in:

app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher
app-text/stardict
media-video/ffmpeg

These should switch to 'speech', imo:
media-sound/mangler[espeak] - Text to speech engine
app-i18n/translate-shell[tts] - Enable text-to-speech support

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] [RFC] New global USE flag 'speech'

[Gordon Pettey]

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On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 1:13 PM Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On Monday, 13 April 2020 18:01:42 CEST Michał Górny wrote:
> > I see one package using 'tts'.
>
> These should switch to 'speech', imo:
> app-i18n/translate-shell[tts] - Enable text-to-speech support
>

I would strongly disagree. TTS has a very clear meaning. All of the listed
cases are explicitly enabling text to speech conversion. They are not
enabling speech input, and they are not enabling speech output without text
input.

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