Re: Report on the upgrade from 4.0.5 to 4.0.82

On June 22, 2008 13:51:08 Rex Dieter wrote:
> kwhiskerz wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed that kttsd (the tts, text-to-speech, frontend for
> > festival) has not worked in any version of kde4? It used to work like a
> > charm in kde3, and festival still works from the command line.
>
> Haven't tried it myself yet, but there is an open bug on that (I can dig
> up the # if you're curious).
>
> -- Rex
>
Naw, I'll wait. Glad to hear that someone's on it. I like to use it as a 
talking book feature using project gutenberg texts.


As for festival, in kde3 and fedora 7, it used to be possible to use the 
mbrola voices to get festival to read in german and french. In fedora 8/9, 
mbrola no longer works as a helper application for festival. I recently read 
on a gentoo list, I think, that festival has to be compiled with an mbrola flag 
enabled. Is it possible that fedora's festival is no longer compiled with the 
mbrola flag set to on? It would sure be nice for that to work again, as the 
mbrola voices are of higher quality, IMHO, and to get it to read in german and 
french as well as english would be a lot better.

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