Bug#552499: Comments regarding svox_1.0+git20100205-1_i386.changes
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
<ftpmaster@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Maintainer!
>
> Could you please explain, what the files in pico/lang/*.bin are, and where to
> find their "source"?
Those are lingware, aka files to convert text to speech. This is
usually done in two steps: text to phonemes (which is specific to the
language: english, french, german, ...) then phonemes to sound (which
is specific to voice (male/female, Isabelle, Peter, ...). There is
some descriptions at <http://www.svox.com/Lingware.aspx>.
I have asked upstream to clarify things at
<http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/3e8283a558df2007/b06e5e2dfac0566b?lnk=gst&q=svox#b06e5e2dfac0566b>
-No response yet).
As I understand, those files are created from source files
<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/svox.git;a=tree;f=pico_resources/tools/LingwareBuilding/PicoLingware_source_files;h=f32295a2a75fee153604294ad93ab24778c5a4c0;hb=donut>
by using tools in
<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/svox.git;a=tree;f=pico_resources/tools/LingwareBuilding/PicoLingware_tools_windows;h=89cc42d4ae1837a246386f118e76a052a0f2d9a7;hb=donut>.
The lingware source files are documented at
<http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/svox.git;a=blob;f=pico_resources/docs/SVOX_Pico_Lingware.pdf;h=111368565abba34055215baaab9ad6e466b2ce83;hb=donut>.
Several problems here (taken form my mail to android-dev):
- those files (tools and src) are not in the master branch
- those files are outdated (2009-10-16 whereas master is 2010-01-12)
- the source code of tools is not provided (but it is said
MODULE_LICENSE_APACHE2)
> Best regards,
> Alexander
Mathieu Parent
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