[Hamara-devel] Hamara accessibility

[Krishnakant]

On Friday 12 February 2016 03:55 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Krishnakant (2016-02-11 18:35:34)
>> There is a speech synthesizer called Festival, there are some pretty
>> good voices
> I agree fullblown Festival is better than both espeak and flite, but
> beware of its size.
However they have fine tuned Festival to a great extent.
I have a couple of voices running with Orca and it works fine so far 
without any great lag.
>
>> like embrola which can be further modified to make them even better
>> sounding.
> ...and beware that mbrola (no e in front) is non-free.  License does not
> permit commercial redistribution, so probably relevant for Hamara!
>
May be we can work out some alternatives.
>> CDAC had done some work on this but [dirty attack stripped]
> Nice to know that CDAC has worked on this.  Thanks for sharing!
>
> Do you know if there is any discussion in public(!) about this effort -
> e.g. someone kindly asking them where they have published their work?
Several times.
I guess we need to understand how CDAC embraces free software.
For them it is nothing more than a source of getting government funding.
Many RTI has been filed against them and Domain expert of GNUKhata Mr. 
Arun Kelkar had asked about this on recored in a public conference, CDAC 
people completely avoided the question saying we will have it on 
sourceforge soon.
But that soon never comes.
Neve the less, we can find out some solution, afterall it is tax payers 
money which is being used so we can get CDAC to release all the source code.

> If not, then I can recommend to (kindly!) ask them about that - e.g. at
> the new public mailinglist on Debian Alioth:
> boss-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
>
BOSS is a government interfered SYSTEM AND I am afraid we won't have the 
same result as a pure community driven OS or any project for that matter.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.