<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/01/2017 08:44 AM, M.E.Adams
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:85f37123-5396-56fe-523c-4f6ec9a43235@use.startmail.com"
type="cite">Please let me know if you have been receiving my
e-mails and are simply not responding do to lack of interest or
are impeded by work load.
</blockquote>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">Um, wow. So, first things.</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">Apologies. When this first arrived, I
looked at it, thought "that needs consideration," marked it for
future reference...and lost track of it, having collapsed a
subfolder tree in my mailer. Completely forgot about it until an
hour ago. Huge apologies.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">Since Fedora 23 (currently on 24, skipped
25, debating 26), festival is completely dead in the water for
me. Simply invoking it at the shell and muttering '(SayText
"hello")' causes a core dump.</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">That said, if there's some way of
integrating better proper name pronunciation by festival into
Xiphos, I'm all ears. I know rather little about festival; the
integration of it into then-GnomeSword was a proof-of-concept
facility for myself as I was getting familiar with the code, my
first noticeable feature addition to the program, over a decade
ago. I'm unaware of how one glues new dictionaries into
festival, for example.</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">If you care to write some more detail, I'd
be happy to read it. And I promise to be more prompt about
dealing with it.</font></p>
<p><font face="FreeSerif">--karl<br>
</font></p>
</body>
</html>