[orca-list] orca and Hardy - no speech - ibmTTS dependancy

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

Luke wrote:
> ttsynth/ibmtts currently depends on is libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, which is the 
> library that was removed from Ubuntu
> hardy.

I needed to install this for Ubuntu 7.10 as well, so I just installed it on 
Hardy via ssh, but orca still remains stubbornly silent.

-- Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke Yelavich" <themuso themuso com>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>; "Speakup is a 
screen review system for Linux." <speakup braille uwo ca>; "Ubuntu 
Accessibility Mailing List" <ubuntu-accessibility lists ubuntu com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:17 PM
Subject: [orca-list] Ttsynth/Ibmtts will no longer work,as of Ubuntu hardy 
8.04.


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> Greetings all.
> I am writing to inform you all, that as of Ubuntu Hardy 8.04, to be 
> released in April next year, the
> Ttsynth/Ibmtts speech synthesizer will no longer work, due to a library 
> that it depends on, having been removed from
> the Ubuntu archives. This library was a left over piece from the gcc 2.95 
> and glibc 2.2 toolchain, that was kept in
> ubuntu for compatibility reasons. It is actually a wonder that it has 
> stayed around this long.
>
> I appreciate the fact that there are many of you out there that use this 
> synth daily, however this decision was out
> of my hands, and it is a matter for the vendors to sort out. I would 
> encourage users of this synth to contact the
> vendor from which you purchased your license, to ask them for a proper 
> resolution to this issue. The library that
> ttsynth/ibmtts currently depends on is libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, which is 
> the library that was removed from Ubuntu
> hardy.
>
> Thanks in advance for your understanding.
>
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