Re: [orca-list] espeak-extra-voices

["Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux)" <billkd2008 gmail com>]

Alright, will begin hacking away at gedit!

Bill
On 05/16/13 21:49, Josh Kennedy wrote:
> I prefer graphical things. You may be able to make the downloader with 
> zenity? I guess it depends though on how complex the downloader has to 
> be.
>
>
> On 5/16/2013 2:54 PM, Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux) wrote:
> > I wanted to start working on the actual downloader/installer/manager
> > thing for this, but was just wondering if people prefer CLI or graphical
> > things.
> >
> > Bill
> > On 05/16/13 14:49, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > > Hi Kyle,
> > >
> > > I for one think it is a good idea. Anything  that will help us improve
> > > Espeak and give us a larger selection of variants/voices is all to the
> > > good in my opinion.
> > >
> > > As far as licensing I think given the fact Espeak itself is covered
> > > under GPL 3 I believe the variants also should use the same license.
> > > Given the fact that it is a modification of Espeak I don't think you
> > > could change the license if you wanted to. So just use GPL 3 as with
> > > the rest of Espeak.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/16/13, Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> > > > In an earlier thread regarding making eSpeak voice variants 
> > > > available to
> > > > Orca, it was determined that new voices can be made rather easily, and
> > > > that speech-dispatcher would expose these voices to Orca once both
> > > > speech-dispatcher and Orca have been restarted. Because the resulting
> > > > voice files are plain text files and would take up very little 
> > > > space on
> > > > the end user's system, I would like to propose a central repository
> > > > where individual voices can be downloaded and copied into eSpeak's 
> > > > voice
> > > > directory. I would also like to propose a tarball including all the
> > > > voices that people want to make available in a package called 
> > > > something
> > > > like espeak-extra-voices. This archive could then be packaged for
> > > > distros by anyone interested in making them easily installable from 
> > > > each
> > > > distro's official repositories or PPA's or user repositories. Given
> > > > enough interest, I will put together a website soon that will have 
> > > > a few
> > > > voices I've cobbled together and any others that people send me that
> > > > I've been able to test. I also have a couple of other voice variants
> > > > that I have received over the years that I have been able to modify to
> > > > work with Orca and speech-dispatcher that I will also include on the
> > > > website and in the archive. I also propose to make samples 
> > > > available so
> > > > that someone who would like to download a voice file will know what 
> > > > that
> > > > voice sounds like before it is downloaded and copied into the eSpeak
> > > > voice directory.
> > > >
> > > > Just a couple of things before I get started with this. First, does 
> > > > this
> > > > seem like a good idea? Is it something that I could get distros to
> > > > package,i.e. is there enough demand for something like this? From past
> > > > threads, it would seem so, but I just want to know that I'm not 
> > > > wasting
> > > > effort, even on what would seem to be a rather small project. My other
> > > > question involves licensing. Because eSpeak itself is GPLv3, I would
> > > > assume that voice files are also covered under GPLV3, but I could be
> > > > wrong. I guess the question would be is it the right thing to do to 
> > > > use
> > > > GPLv3 for my archive for consistency, or should a different license be
> > > > used for voice files that are not distributed as part of eSpeak?
> > > > ~Kyle
> > > > http://kyle.tk/
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