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[needs-packaging] Orator

Bug #379418 reported by Reece H. Dunn
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Bug Description

Orator provides a GUI front end to the eSpeak text-to-speech program.

This resolves http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18257/.

website: http://rhdunn.github.com/orator/
source: git clone git://github.com/rhdunn/orator
license: GPLv3+
bug tracker: http://orator.unfuddle.com/projects/1/ticket_reports/7
current release: 0.3 (git tag orator-0.3)
description: "The Orator text-to-speech project is a unified GUI and command-line front-end to a number of available text-to-speech engines. It is also aimed at improving the accuracy of text to phoneme and phoneme to audio translation, with extensive research material."

In order to run Orator, you need to install the following packages:
    sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a espeak

In order to build the project, you need to install the following packages:
    sudo apt-get install git-core autoconf2.59 libtool libgtkmm-2.4-dev libespeak-dev

You can then build Orator using the following commands:
    ./autogen --with-espeak
    make
    sudo make install

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

Changed in ubuntu:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Reece H. Dunn (msclrhd-gmail) wrote :

I have settled on using the github issue tracker (http://github.com/rhdunn/orator/issues) instead of Unfuddle.

All the major planned features for the initial 1.0 release have been completed. It now has pulseaudio support, better Gnome/KDE integration, localisation support (but no translations at present) and a debian build script.

What is left is polish and fixing any bugs. In addition to this, Debian requires the NEWS file to be gzip compressed. Orator loads that file in the Help > Release Notes menu, but cannot at the moment read gzip compressed files. I am considering adding support for this for 1.0 so I can re-add the dh_compress step.

Is there anything blocking this project from being packaged and included in Ubuntu?

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