[Tts-project] Speech related WNPP bugs (mostly festival)

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi,

below is a list of all speech related [1] packages that are currently 
looking for a new maintainer.

For some there already seems to be the intention to adopt them, but in 
such cases please:
1. follow the instructions at [2] and retitle the bug to ITA and
2. try to make an upload soon

This makes it visible that these packages are already being adopted,
and after adoption bug reports will be going to the new maintainers.

For festvox-suopuhe-lj and festvox-suopuhe-mv the former maintainer 
stated in the WNPP bugs that
  The packages should be removed from Debian after the wheezy release
  unless a new maintainer somehow materializes. 
If noone wants to adopt them, it would be helpful to have a statement
in these WNPP bugs stating either that they are useless and should be
removed, or that there is value in having these packages in jessie.


The packages and WNPP bugs are:

O: festvox-suopuhe-lj -- Finnish female speaker for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/474018

O: festvox-suopuhe-mv -- Finnish male speaker for festival
http://bugs.debian.org/474019

O: festival-doc -- Documentation for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/699950

O: festival-freebsoft-utils -- Festival extensions and utilities
http://bugs.debian.org/730985

O: emacspeak-ss -- Emacspeak speech servers for several synthesizers
http://bugs.debian.org/636409

O: sound-icons -- sounds for speech enabled applications
http://bugs.debian.org/730987

RFA: festvox-czech-ph -- Czech male speaker for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/730988

RFA: festvox-czech-dita -- Czech female speaker for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/730989

RFA: festvox-czech-machac -- Czech male speaker for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/730990

RFA: festvox-czech-krb -- Czech child speaker for Festival
http://bugs.debian.org/730991

RFA: festival-czech -- Czech support for Festival speech synthesis system
http://bugs.debian.org/730997


Thanks in advance
Adrian

[1] Is that the correct expression?
[2] https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o

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