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Bug #1 (liberation)
Comment #426

Comment 426 for bug 1

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Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote on 2007-07-26:

#426

Fonss wrote: "I get tired of reading soo many blogs, but I wish I could read all of this quickly. Can we put some effort in the text to speech engines?"

Its maybe not quite what you want, but there's a frontend for the festival speech synthesizer called "Fala" which can be downloaded as a DEB from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fala You could just copy and paste the text in there and set it to read.

Tama00 wrote: "Where is it written that Linux or the GNU organistation wanted to dominate the market share for desktop operating systems? [...] Untill Linus himself says, "Linux was created to take microsofts market share" will be the day untill i beleive what is said here."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds quotes him as saying:

"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

;)

Tama00 continued: "Microsoft being number 1 on the OS is NOT A BUG."

It makes for a catchy title for the bug, but if you read the description, M$ is just the largest example of the real problem, "Non-free software", which "is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry."

So "Microsoft being number 1 on the OS" is indeed a symptom of the bug just as much as if Apple were #1. Currently, IMHO, one of the biggest gaps in terms of FOSS replacements Ubuntu faces in this regard to this bug is the lack of a mature Flash-alternative. Gnash is plodding along and eventually we'll see it hopefully installed by default. Alternately, Adobe could get their act together and GPL Flash as Sun did with Java... but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe M$ will scare them into it by getting some traction with their 'flash killer' "Silverlight" (though if its anything like their 'iPod Killer' "Zune", Adobe has nothing to worry about ;)

Fonss wrote: "I get tired of reading soo many blogs, but I wish I could read all of this quickly. Can we put some effort in the text to speech engines?"

Its maybe not quite what you want, but there's a frontend for the festival speech synthesizer called "Fala" which can be downloaded as a DEB from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fala  You could just copy and paste the text in there and set it to read.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds quotes him as saying:

"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect."

;)

Tama00 continued: "Microsoft being number 1 on the OS is NOT A BUG."

So "Microsoft being number 1 on the OS" is indeed a symptom of the bug just as much as if Apple were #1.  Currently, IMHO, one of the biggest gaps in terms of FOSS replacements Ubuntu faces in this regard to this bug is the lack of a mature Flash-alternative.  Gnash is plodding along and eventually we'll see it hopefully installed by default.  Alternately, Adobe could get their act together and GPL Flash as Sun did with Java...  but I'm not holding my breath.  Maybe M$ will scare them into it by getting some traction with their 'flash killer' "Silverlight" (though if its anything like their 'iPod Killer' "Zune", Adobe has nothing to worry about ;)