new version of Orca

[Janina Sajka]

Bill Nottingham writes:
> Janina Sajka (janina at 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).
> 
Yes, definitely. Festival wasn't designed in a way that makes it a good
choice for screen reader use. Now that we have a reasonable sounding tts
engine with a license we can all support, we should default to it. It's
also in active development, so continuing to improve specifically for
the screen reading task. And, I think it's the only tts supporting alsa
natively.

I think this is a no brainer.

PS: There's even a Latin voice in espeak!

The value to breaking the tts into a separate gnome-speech-[engine.name]
package is that it allows users to add or subtract additional tts
engines without running into dependency issues. For instance, I can then
build a gnome-speech-ttsynth (a proprietary engine much used) and
include a compat-libstdc++-2.96 dependency, which only applies to
TTSynth. While it's possible to ship a gnome-speech-ttsynth, because IBM
put the headers into BSD license, there are other engines that people
will want which aren't yet there.

Janina

> Bill
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