From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MQ8NV-0004Wo-FZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:22:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D7FBE0797; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D96CE0797 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6CNMd6Y002934 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n6CNMdtL007916 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:22:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B6FF31465F; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:26:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:26:27 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT) Message-ID: <20090712232627.GA18653@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090707162355.GB22597@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090707162355.GB22597@linux1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 7a6c0a51-e271-4367-b8e2-14b94170feb6 X-Archives-Hash: a6e6e1d2db83bfaf52ffbe2479e6ad40 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 -- Physics: a liberal arts on steroids. ~Prof. Peter Meyers. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 947 days, 22:06