Re: ubuntu and software synthesiser

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Bill Haneman wrote:
>   
> > Michael:
> >
> > You can use orca with DECtalk.  To do so, you will need to rebuild 
> > gnome-speech, since by default the DECtalk driver is not built and 
> > installed.  I believe that gnome-speech will build and install the 
> > DECtalk drivers if DECtalk is detected on your system when you build.
> >
> > I will leave it to Will to explain how to select a TTS engine in orca's 
> > preferences.
> >
> >   
> >     
>
> Is there a way we can make this more user friendly? Are there licensing 
> reasons why gnome-speech is compiled without DECtalk support or 
> technical ones? If it's a question of some compile flags then I can ask 
> our packagers to make a DECtalk-enabled version available.
>   
I believe the issue is that you can't build DECtalk support without the 
DECtalk headers, and we can't distribute those for legal reasons.

It may be possible to create a separate gnome-speech/DECtalk driver 
package, with a license other than LGPL (maybe BSD?) but I think this 
would probably require Fonix's explicit consent. 

Bill
> Henrik
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