Re: [orca-list] is this an orca bug? changing speech-dispatcher's support for espeak's varients doesn't enable the varients to show up

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 01:30:18AM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> Vinux will probably get the new speech-dispatcher if they don't have it
> already. The one thing they don't have is a lot of varients. Espeak does
> come with some, but sonar uses espeak ng, which is an espeak fork
> created by reece dunn, the guy who does espeak for android, and he ships
> the nvda varients along with espeak.

Vinux as of now does have speech-dispatcher 0.8.5, whicih does support 
espeak-ng, and by that, I mean you literally can have 2 different espeak 
modules, one for espeak, and one for espeak-ng.

So far as I know, nobody has packaged espeak-ng for Debian based distros yet, 
and this is most likely because there are no actual releases of espeak-ng in 
tarball form. Nevertheless, I am likely going to take some time to 
package it, and offer it as an alternative in Vinux going forward.

> I'm not sure if vinux will ever switch over to that. I think they, and all 
> other linux distros should mostly because espeak itself doesn't seem likely 
> ever to get further
> updates.

As above, I think we will see espeak-ng offered as an alternative once there 
is a tarball release.

Luke