Bugzilla Bug 47635

Hi.

I was used to flite from debian and there existed different voice packages.
It seems that this is missing for gentoo at the moment, or?!

I addded above the url to the good quality male american voice
or the british pendant:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/sound/festvox-rablpc16k

Is there a possiblity to increase the voice qualitiy somehow?

Any help appreciated.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-rc3-mm4)
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System uname: 2.6.5-rc3-mm4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O3"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
http://212.219.247.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
http://212.219.247.12/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acl acp aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bonobo cdr
crypt cups dga directfb dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal fam fbcon firebird flac
foomaticdb gb gdbm ggi gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile
hardened icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde kerberos krb4
ladcca lcms libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mbox memlimit mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mpeg msn mysql nas ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam
pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner
sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype unicode
usb v4l videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv yahoo zlib"

Configuring with --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16 will make flite link against
the 16-bit voice, which sounds a little better.  I think it is
generally what we want.  The only situation I can think of where we'd
want the 8k voice (which is the default) would be on a pda or
embedded system with limited memory (the docs mention the Zaurus
SL-5000D).

Simply changeline #32 in "app-accessibility/flite/flite-1.2.ebuild" from

   myconf="${myconf} --enable-shared --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16"

to 

   myconf="${myconf} --enable-shared --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16"



BTW: Who can make this going into portage tree ?

Sorry again ....

Simply change line #32 in "app-accessibility/flite/flite-1.2.ebuild" from

   myconf="${myconf} --enable-shared"

to 

   myconf="${myconf} --enable-shared --with-vox=cmu_us_kal16"


BTW: Who can make *this* going into portage tree ?

I'll add this as soon as we get flite working again- the gcc upgrade seemed to
have broken it and a couple other packages I'm working on :(

There, now in portage; thank you for the updates :)