RFC: GStreamer eSpeak plugin, getting old

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 06:17:36PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 06:18:26PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 juin 2018 à 08:02 +1000, James Cameron a écrit :
> > G'day,
> > 
> > I'm looking for general help from plugin experts.
> > 
> > The Sugar learning environment for children uses the GStreamer eSpeak
> > plugin, through PyGObject and command line;
> > 
> >     gst-launch-1.0 espeak text="hello world" ! autoaudiosink
> > 
> > The plugin works, but is really old code, has compilation warnings,
> > run-time warnings, and perhaps a few problems yet to be discovered.
> > The warnings are easy to reproduce.
> > 
> > Source repository is
> > 
> >     https://github.com/sugarlabs/gst-plugins-espeak
> 
> Also, most of the code is missing a copyright assignment to make the
> license valid. Any idea ?

You're right.  I've noted that.  I'll contact the AUTHORS.

> > On Fedora the package is gstreamer-plugins-espeak.
> > 
> > On Debian and Ubuntu the package is gstreamer1.0-espeak.
> 
> Quick question, why is this spawning a separate process ?

I don't know, sorry.

> > 
> > Thanks for reading!
> > 
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