RFC: GStreamer eSpeak plugin, getting old

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 08:35:30AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> 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.

The author Aleksey Lim has accepted my patch to add copyright
assignment.  Thanks for noticing that.

> > > 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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> James Cameron
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