Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

[Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:23:55AM -0500, Penguin Lover William Hubbs squawked:
> In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used
> software speech synthesizer.  So, if there are not any objections, I am
> considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree.
> 
> So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what it
> is being used for.  If you use festival, can you reply to this thread
> and give me an idea of how important this package is to you and how
> often you use it, etc?
> 

I use festival more from a hobbyist point of view rather than
accessibility necessity. I played around with voice interaction a
while back and back then festival was pretty much the only good
option. 

Considering that most of what I did was hacked-together perl and shell
scripts, looking at espeak.sf.net I see that using espeak as a drop-in
replacement won't be too difficult. 

Thanks for keeping us (the users) in touch. As to your question: as
long as festival is not the only software that supports the
text-to-speach function (and it is not, as you pointed out), I won't
complain if you see it as dead upstream and trim it from the tree. 

W
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