Re: [orca-list] Cepstral on Debian

[Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>]

Hi their.  What I plan to do is ask questions via Debconf.  As far as
invidual packages, what I will do is split them into invidual modules.
i.e. Cepstral-dave, etc.  As far as the swift engine, that will be named
cepstral=swift.  Per Debian policy, they will be installed into
/usr/local. During the first Debconf run, I will prompt the user for
license information and feed that to swift that will in turn do the
actual verification.  Also, key here is to make the packages as
distribution agnostic as possible, so one could, in theory, use Alien to
convert the binary packages into whatever native packagement management
system one may be using.  Anyone of you want to help with this effort?  If
so, contact me off-list of via this mailing list.  I will also cross post
this to Debian-Accessibility.  I know its not free software, but
monitoring the list traffic on various lists, their has been a lot of
complaints about Swift and Cepstral.  Possible enhancements via Debconf I'm
thinking of are integration with Pulse audio. i.e. at install time, have
the user be able to select an initial volume for Cepstral.  What do you
all think? Comments are welcome.

--Erik

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, David E. Price wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:00:21 -0600
> From: David E. Price <deprice cs utah edu>
> To: Vítor Oliveira <vitoroliveira2008 gmail com>
> Cc: Orca Developer's Mailing List <orca-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Cepstral on Debian
>
> Hi,
>
> Returning to the original question, are you thinking of packaging the swift
> engine with all of the Cepstral voices from a single language?  That sounds
> like a good idea to help people who aren't comfortable with tar balls. Are you
> thinking of including a script that would allow the user to register the
> voices for which they have a key?
>
> Thanks,
>
> dave
>
>
> On 09/27/2008 04:41 AM, Vítor Oliveira wrote:
> > Hi: I'd asked them last weak and they told me there are no voices for linux,
> > only for Windows and Mac OS.
> >
> > Victor Oliveira
> >
> >
> > Alonzo escreveu:
> > > Hello Eric
> > >
> > > This woudl be useful to me. i'm not sure how fast the cepstral voice are
> > > with orca though as I've never used them. I would like ot purchase one,
> > > but first try it out before doing so to se how they perform on my
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Alonzo
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:14 -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi everyone.  Was thinking of purchasing the Cepstral voices or use on
> > > > one
> > > > of my Sid machines.  For those of you who are new users, would it be
> > > > helpful if I create a Debian/Ubuntu package for Cepstral voices as well
> > > > as
> > > > Swift?  I know this isn't free software, but just thought it may be
> > > > helpful for some of you.
> > > >
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