Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Organising gnuspeech source(s)

[David Hill]

Hi Marcelo,

On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Marcelo Yassunori Matuda wrote:

Hi,

Two branches or two directories/modules?

My R$0,02:

I think it depends on your long-term goals. GnuSpeech is a very

interesting project. You may expect sub-projects in the future, like a

GnuSpeech server ("Real-time Monet"). How about developing it in the

next Google Summer of Code? There could be versions in ObjC, C, C++ or

even Java.

Great idea.  I'll have to look into that carefully

Another possibility is a rewrite in C++/Qt (example). And don't forget

that GnuSpeech may be modified/expanded. This could be in an

"experimental" directory.

A C++ rewrite is probably not on because of the heavy dependence on the interface stuff, but Real-time Monet (a,k,a the TextToSpeech Server) could probably be done in a variety of languages

In other words, I think you may need more than two directories/modules.

Thanks.  Fair comment.

But if you are talking about two branches, that's another thing.

I'm feeling my way on this, really.  I am definitely concerned about having multiple sets of source code for the same tasks all needing to be kept up-to-date.  I'd really like to see a GNUStep version of the TTS Server running and it ought easily to run on the Mac too if the audio back end can be sorted out in a reasonably platform independent way.

Is there a good source of information on these kinds of issues?  CVS does seem to have some disadvantages, but maybe that's because I don't know CVS as well as I should.  I have Fogel & Bar "Open Source Development with CVS" (2nd edition).

Dalmazio wrote about a month ago saying:

Also, have you considered registering your text-to-speech project with SourceForge.net? All the software on this site is free and open-source software, with usually some flavour of the GNU license, and it gets a *lot* of visibility. Just doing a search on 'speech synthesis' for example shows a dozen or so open-source projects related to speech synthesis. But perhaps it would be too much work to maintain two separate sites for this.

which also seems worth considering and might get some more people interested & involved.

All good wishes.

david

Cheers!

Marcelo

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