[u-a-dev] [Bug 82098] Re: Easy install of proprietary voice synthesizers

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Thu Feb 1 23:25:52 GMT 2007


Hi.

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:14:04PM +0100, Gilles Casse wrote:
> Hi Luke and all,
> 
> You previously mentioned that the IBM TTS headers are under a BSD
> license. They could legally be used for building and distributing
> binary packages.
> 
> For example, Linux distros could propose today a gnome-speech driver
> for IBM TTS in their repository :-).
> 
Unless IBM has updated there software, IBM TTS requires old libs that
don't exist in UBuntu or even Debian Woody.  Until this is fixed, the
synth isn't usable.

          Kenny




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