From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add sonic. Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:10:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3hl4lkn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5ce5b80290833db46e031d80e43c00fec1399d7b.1452576360.git.leo@famulari.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJM80-0005Fk-8Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:10:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJM7v-0001nX-8x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:10:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <5ce5b80290833db46e031d80e43c00fec1399d7b.1452576360.git.leo@famulari.name> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:38 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > * gnu/packages/audio.scm (sonic): New variable. [...] > + #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases > + (delete 'configure)))) There=E2=80=99s a problem here. :-) > + (synopsis "Speed up or slow down speech") > + (description "Sonic is a simple algorithm for speeding up or slowing= down s/is a/implements a/ > +speech. However, it's optimized for speed ups of over 2X, unlike previo= us > +algorithms for changing speech rate. The Sonic library is a very simple= ANSI C > +library that is designed to easily be integrated into streaming voice > +applications, like TTS back ends. I would change the last sentence to: Sonic is a C library designed to be easily integrated into streaming voice applications such as text-to-speech (TTS) back ends. > +The primary motivation behind Sonic is to enable the blind and visually = impaired > +to improve their productivity with open source speech engines, like espe= ak. ^=E2=80=91---------------------------------= ---------^ Replace with =E2=80=9Cwith speech engines such as eSpeak.=E2=80=9D > +Sonic can also be used by the sighted. For example, Sonic can improve t= he > +experience of listening to an audio book on an Android phone.") I=E2=80=99d remove these two sentences. OK with these changes. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.