From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HwIeW-0004Fg-E3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:07:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l57E5aRr025210; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:05:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l57DwG6J010017 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:58:17 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.104] (unknown [64.207.228.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B223A64C9B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <46680EAA.7080406@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:56:58 -0500 From: Steev Klimaszewski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: phasing out app-accessibility/festival References: <20070605042507.GA11411@linux1> In-Reply-To: <20070605042507.GA11411@linux1> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a9087704-f4dc-4ae0-acdc-f62ae8f4e938 X-Archives-Hash: 19ef661fce4738214544471dea1396ad -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 William Hubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > app-accessibility/festival has not done a release upstream in some time. > We currently have several bugs against this package, including one > security bug. > > Since a lot of blind people are now using espeak as their software > speech synthesizer, and the new version of emacspeak (version 26, which > will be in portage pretty soon) can support espeak, I would like to know > this. > > Once emacspeak 26 is in the tree, I would like to move festival out of > accessibility, or remove it from the tree. > > If there is a reason to keep festival in the tree, > can someone please contact me and take over the package? > > Hi William, Could you point me to a noob's guide to espeak? I cannot seem to get it to output any speech. voyageur on IRC stated that it worked for him via 'aoss espeak "hello world"' - however, I don't have aoss. I inteded to test against kismet, but without being able to get it working standalone, I can't get it working with kismet. Thanks~! - -- Steev -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGaA6p1c+EtXTHkJcRAg7DAJ9XRzZq8E0P6t9ygRQYEA7Zue4hRQCfSjPp QZFMpdnz75s+4UVb/3Xl7xE= =Wk3L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list