Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add eSpeak

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:58:12AM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > > So, in the future we should probably
> > > package espeak-ng as well, for the sake of users that need speech
> > > synthesis. It will conflict with espeak since the output binaries have
> > > the same names.
> > 
> > From what you write, would it not be better to directly package espeak-ng
> > and to drop espeak?
> 
> Eventually we should do that, but for now I think we should provide the
> espeak that users are familiar with. I am not sure how much the
> interface has changed in espeak-ng, if at all. I'm going to try it out
> soon.

There's a WIP patch for espeak-ng available here if anyone wants to take
a crack at making it work:
https://github.com/lfam/guix/commits/contrib-espeak

I think the error it fails on is corrected on the git master branch.
I'll try it soon.

> 
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
>