Oralux repository

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

Hi Gilles!

Thanks for letting us know about this! Sorry for not responding sooner 
(things are a bit hectic these days).

It is very interesting to hear of your repository, including the mbrola 
packages. This would be a great addition to our offering as well. I've 
just tested your repository -- I'm able to install mbrola and voices 
happily in Edgy (though I'm not sure how to activate/use them).

We're working on a specification for multilingual support 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MultilingualSpeechSynthesis) 
where mbrola would fit in well. I guess some work is still needed to 
make it integrate well with Orca or speech dispatcher so that it will be 
very simple for the user to switch from one synth to another.

We should also talk about shared repository hosting. We have good 
capacity in terms of hardware and bandwith so we can help with that. We 
also have a separate 'commercial' repository where non-free things can go.

Henrik

Gilles Casse wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Oralux repository is under construction: it currently includes
> around 30 new packages.
>
> This repository includes the MBROLA packages which are proprietary and
> can not be included in a commercial project without permissions (the
> license is much more detailled of course). Before including these
> packages in Oralux, we contacted Dr Thierry Dutoit and the other
> copyright holders for the MBROLA databases. 
>
> If possible, the best would be that some of our packages migrate to the
> repository of major distributions.
>
> It might ease for example the multispeech installation and its six
> related languages.
>
> These packages are compliant with a Debian testing (Knoppix 5.0.1 in
> fact). 
>
> Igor B. Poretsky kindly proposed his Debian packages (particularly for
> mbrola). Another source could have been the Brlspeak project since
> Sebastien François built some of these packages.
>
> Lukas Loehrer kindly proposes his eflite/flite packages compliant with
> ALSA. He also helped to improve some of my multipeech packages.
>
> The current Oralux repository is available with these lines in the
> sources.list file:
>
> deb http://oralux.net/packages unstable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://oralux.net/packages unstable main non-free contrib
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gilles 
>
>
>