Re: installing edgy

[Thomas Ward <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi,
> Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Thomas, is this something we could place in multiverse (our non-free 
> repository) so that people don't have to compile it? And would you be 
> willing to maintain it? ;)
>   

Yes, I think we could do that and something I have been strongly 
thinking about. The catch is the person compiling the driver of course 
needs the commercial synth to compile, which I have, so I could 
certainly roll you a package once I knew how to make a *.deb package for 
Ubuntu.
I think this is an extremely good idea, and is frankly far passed do in 
the Linux comunity. I can see some advantage of this. The default Ubuntu 
install cd comes with the basic open source festival tts and drivers, 
but if someone decides to purchase commercial tts products like dectalk 
all they need to do is apt-get a commercial package of gnome-speech, 
reconfigure orca, and away he/she goes.
Just let me know which tts engines you wish to have supported in the 
package. Festival and Dectalk 5 I can do right now. I am thinking of 
buying Cepstral voices for my own use so I could include their drivers 
as well as soon as I know which Cepstral voices are supported by 
Gnome-speech.