-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 All,
we have several open bugs on app-accessibility/festival and app-accessibility/speech-tools. These packages have been around for a long time, and upstream appears, at least so far, to be dead (my maintainer says that he has been unable to contact them). These packages are very difficult to maintain, because of their highly custom build system. In accessibility, as far as I am aware, espeak has become the most used software speech synthesizer. So, if there are not any objections, I am considering removing festival from the main gentoo portage tree. So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what it is being used for. If you use festival, can you reply to this thread and give me an idea of how important this package is to you and how often you use it, etc? - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpTdpsACgkQblQW9DDEZTgQsgCZATq4G48HM6X36rsXDDLnas1l Ey8AoK+5fwCnIh9PrIz/rDYfhf9a7BuF =bNbF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
