>Number:         6350
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       new packages for rsynth, beep & cmudict (a text to speech system)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 23 20:05:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Darrin B. Jewell
>Organization:
	
>Release:        -current last updated via CVS around 19981021.0726 GMT
>Environment:
System: NetBSD pan-fried-peking-ravioli 1.3H NetBSD 1.3H (PAN-FRIED-PEKING-RAVIOLI) #6: Fri Oct 23 13:26:52 EDT 1998 root@:/u2/PAN-FRIED-PEKING-RAVIOLI i386


>Description:

I created some new packages for software I wanted to play with on my system:

 rsynth-2.0     A public domain phoneme based text to speech system.
 beep-1.0       A pronunciation dictionary for British English.
 cmudict-0.6    A 100k-word pronunciation dictionary for American English.

>How-To-Repeat:

Rather than just committing the packages, I am submitting this pr to allow
for feedback and the possibility of someone else testing these first if they
get the chance.  I have only tested them so far on an i386 -current system.

If the package maintainers would like me to proceed and commit these
packages, you can assign the pr to me and I'll go ahead with it.

The rsynth package can take some /etc/mk.conf options:
#RSYNTH_USE_NAS=                # Used in rsynth package to require the
                                # network audio server (NAS) and build a NAS version
                                # as well as the native version.
                                # Possible: defined, not defined
                                # Default: not defined

#RSYNTH_USE_BEEP=               # Used in rsynth package to build a database
                                # from the beep pronunciation dictionary for
                                # British English.  This database is ~22mb.
                                # Possible: defined, not defined
                                # Default: not defined

#RSYNTH_USE_CMUDICT=            # Used in rsynth package to build a database
                                # from the cmudict pronunciation dictionary for
                                # American English.  This database is ~11mb.
                                # Possible: defined, not defined
                                # Default: not defined

I installed all three of these packages in the pkgsrc/audio directory
in my tree, even though only the dictionaries are not audio tools by themselves.

I did not attempt to fix or repair problems with the original rsynth system itself.

>Fix:

Tar files for the packages can be found at:

ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/jewell/rsynth.pkg.tar.gz
ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/jewell/beep.pkg.tar.gz
ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/jewell/cmudict.pkg.tar.gz

>Audit-Trail:
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