Bug 87682

Summary:	Request for german language support in festival
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Bettler <thomas.bettler>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Accessibility Team <accessibility>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	sound
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeaccessibility/kttsd/configuration.html
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Bettler 2005-04-02 09:22:40 UTC

I'd like to see german language support in festival, but don't know whether there might be copyright restrictions.

Comment 1 Frank van de Pol (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-22 05:36:31 UTC

According to my information the German language is currently not supported by Festival (currently multi-lingual support for English and Spanish). 

Extending festival with new languages is something that needs to be done upstream - please contact the Festival people at CSTR for this.

Comment 2 Thomas Bettler 2005-04-22 14:02:36 UTC

Nope. It just has to be compiled as an additional module.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that source:
http://docs.kde.org/en/HEAD/kdeaccessibility/kttsd/configuration.html

Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-23 19:31:39 UTC

mbrola has german in it now, so emerge the new festival ebuild with USE=mbrola.
 Also, check out how the spanish festvox voices were added, and submit a patch
if you meant festvox voices rather than mbrola.