Package: wnpp Severity: normal flite is basically a C version of festival, compiling all the necessary data for speech synthesis down to a library which gets linked into programs that do want to do text-to-speech. There is #350484 which needs to be dealt with. When flite 1.2 was released, I worked directly with upstream to integrate a patch which allowed to build the library also as shared object files, not just statically. This is obviously important for a distro since the flite library is pretty huge (8MB or so) and to link it into every package that uses it is extreme archive bloat. Unfortunately, the 1.3 release seems to have dropped this feature, and my initial attempt at looking on how to refix .so support failed. I've since then heard Fedora carries a patch to do this. So maybe it isn't that hard to get 1.3 into Debian after all. However, these days, I find espeak much more promising for the future (especially since it does provide multilanguage support), and my free time does not permit me to maintain several speech engines anymore (at least, I am not motivated enough to do a good job, obviously). I'd like to find a good home for flite. It does have three other packages depend on it that I know of, speech-dispatcher, eflite and brltty. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/>
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