[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: software speech synthesis in d-i?



Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
>> Samuel Thibault, le Sat 07 Mar 2009 01:21:20 +0100, a écrit :
>>> Otavio Salvador, le Fri 06 Mar 2009 16:55:26 -0300, a écrit :
>>>>>> Is static linking out of question?
>>>>> I would be fine to see an espeak udeb statically linking with
>>>>> libportaudio and/or libasound.  That could even save more disk space
>>>>> than -Os builds.
>>>> Could you take a look and check if it would be nice and how much space
>>>> we'd use?
>>> I tried to statically link espeakup against libespeak, libportaudio
>>> and libasound; that produced a 500KB binary, which is indeed less than
>>> what espeakup + libespeak.so + libportaudio.so + libasound.so would be
>>> (1.2MB).  The resulting udeb is 230KB.
>>>
>>> There also needs to be espeak-data-udeb.udeb, which is 500KB (1.5MB
>>> unpacked), and sound modules, which are 1.2MB (5MB unpacked).
>>>
>>> Thus a total estimation of 2MB of udebs (7MB unpacked).
>> So, does it seem reasonable?
> 
> Yes, at least for me.
> 
> However I'd prefer to keep it in graphical installer only. What others
> think?

It seems reasonable to me, though I'm not up to speed with the exact
size restrictions yet.

Cheers

Luk


Reply to: