Re: Updating mbrola (again)

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	Hello.  If you're going to make packages out of yasr, Eflite and Flite, make sure you
apply the patches in the .tar.gz file I referenced earlier in this thread.  One of the most
important features in a screen reader is the ability for the user to interupt the speech as
it's being spoken.  Flite on NetBSD uses the SUN API for generating audio.  The default SUN
file that comes with flite confuses the AUDIO_DRAIN and AUDIO_FLUSH functions.  As a result, if
you use the default flite package from the official web site, Yasr will be unable to stop and
restart speech on demand, rendering it pretty much unusable.  There are other patches, as well,
for both Eflite and Yasr, original files are in the .fcs files in the .tar.gz file, so it
should be pretty easy to build patch files for the pkg sources.  

-thanks
-Brian