Please follow up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org (or directly to me).
"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have packaged emacspeak 13.0 for Debian. Eventually, you should be > able to find it here in any Debian mirror site: > > dists/woody/main/binary-all/editors/emacspeak_13.0-1.deb > > It is also at my web site: > > http://www.mv.com/ipusers/vanzandt/ > > and at the blinux ftp site. > > This package is in the "unstable" Debian distribution. I expect the > next Debian release is at least six months away. > > The README.debian file for the emacspeak package is attached. > > - Jim Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > emacspeak for DEBIAN > ---------------------- > >Starting with version 11.0, the Emacspeak sources include a speech >server written in C++ for the IBM ViaVoice speech synthesis software. >However, it depends on the ViaVoice runtime kit which does not meet >the Debian Free Software Guidelines. (It is available only as object >code, and only under a temporary license.) Therefore, support for >ViaVoice is not included in this Debian package. IBM is making beta >copies of ViaVoice for i386 available without charge. If you would >like to try it, you can find some information at >http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/ttssdk_linux.html and >download from http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/linux-p. You >need two files - the software developer kit and the run time kit. Is this still the full story? Is the speech-enabled interface to ViaVoice ASR for dictation not available under Debian Linux? > files. You can convert these to Debian packages and install them as > follows: > > tar -xf viavoice_tts_rtk_5.tar > tar -xf viavoice_tts_sdk_5.tar > fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_rtk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm > fakeroot alien -d ViaVoice_TTS_sdk-5.1-1.2.i386.rpm Please note that `alien' does not include the Red Hat post-installation scripts in the resulting Debian package (I understand this is a feature, not a bug). > dpkg -i --force-overwrite viavoice-tts-rtk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb \ > viavoice-tts-sdk_5.1-2.2_i386.deb > Now it is necessary to do by hand some configuration equivalent to the original Red Hat post-installation scripts. If you already removed the original Red Hat packages or you don't know how to unpack them, then you are in trouble. > (The last step must be performed as root. If you run alien as root, > you may omit the use of fakeroot. The --force-overwrite flag is > necessary because several files appear in both packages.) At this > point, please read /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttssd.lic.la.txt.gz, > /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.txt.gz, and > /usr/doc/ViaVoiceTTS/ttsrt.lic.ila.eval.txt.gz and decide whether you > can accept the terms of the IBM license. To say the truth, I find the licenses, especially TTS SDK one, rather confusing. It seems that you are are allowed to use Viavoice TTS for 3 months. On the other hand, some IBM WWW pages seem to contradict the licences included in the modules. Can somebody provide the reliable information how to obtain ViaVoice TTS for permanent use? >If so, you can then unpack > the Emacspeak sources (either from > debian/dists/stable/main/source/editors/emacspeak_11.0.orig.tar.gz on ^^ Do you really mean version eleven? > The Emacspeak-HOWTO contains additional documentation. The plain text > form of this can be found in the Debian package doc-linux, and is > installed as /usr/doc/HOWTO/Emacspeak-HOWTO.gz. Other formats are > also available. For example, these can be found at sunsite.unc.edu: > > /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/dvi/Emacspeak-HOWTO.dvi.gz > /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/Emacspeak-HOWTO-html.tar.gz > /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ps/Emacspeak-HOWTO.ps.gz > /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/sgml/Emacspeak-HOWTO.sgml.gz Do you mean version 1.1 of 2 February 1997? This is what is included in the official Debian 2.2 distribution. Best regards and thanks for your effort Janusz S. Bień P.S. What about cross-posting such announcements to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Na tym koncie czytam i wysylam poczte i wiadomosci offline. On this account I read/post mail/news offline.
