Re: new version of Orca

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Janina Sajka (janina rednote net) said: 
> However, on a related note, we should default gnome-speech to espeak
> rather than festival. This is especially cool for orca users inasmuch as
> espeak is now built against alsa via portaudio 19--which is there in
> F-8. As previously discussed among some of us, this should be done via
> breakout packages for particular speech engines, e.g.
> gnome-speech-espeak. I believe this is what I see in the development
> repository, but I'm unclear whether festival is similarly broken out,
> and deprecated from its default in gnome-speech status.

gnome-speech requires festival - there is a separate gnome-speech-espeak
if you want espeak. But festival will still get pulled in.

Do you think festival should be made optional for F9 (it's probably
too late for F8).

Bill