Re: [gnuspeech-contact] Development of gnuspeech project

[Amin Bandali]

Hi all,

[ adding Sina and Dalmazio to Cc; please keep me in Cc as well,
  since I'm currently not subscribed to gnuspeech-contact ]

Marcelo, I just checked the messages for maintainers@, and we had
indeed received your message from September 2022, but it seems like
it unfortunately fell through the cracks and was never replied to.
My apologies.

Thank you Paul for reaching out again, and bringing this to GNU's
attention.  I'm sorry and saddened to hear about David's passing.
May he rest in peace.

Regarding the development and future of gnuspeech, out of curiosity,
have any of you folks tried reaching out to Steve Nygard, one of the
formerly active contributors and members of the project, to see if
they might be interested in resuming their contributions again, and
potentially become a GNU maintainer for gnuspeech?

As for the current group (Marcelo, Paul, Sina, and Dalmazio), are any
of you folks interested in continuing the development of the project
and potentially becoming GNU (co)maintainers for gnuspeech?

Thanks,
amin

Marcelo Mat writes:

> Hi Paul,
>
> I can't be the admin. And I think David was irreplaceable.
>
> And GNU is not replying to our e-mails.
>
> Marcelo
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 9:27 PM Paul Tyson <phtyson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I applied for project membership and saw that the email had been sent to
>> David's old address.
>>
>> I sent email to maintainers and gvc explaining the situation. I said there
>> was renewed interest in the project.
>>
>> Marcelo, would you be interested in the admin job?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Paul
>> On 3/21/23 16:55, Marcelo Mat wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> When people apply to join a GNU project, the project admin must approve,
>> as far as I know.
>>
>> I haven't sent an admin request, I only said in the email that David
>> passed away.
>>
>> Marcelo
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:07 PM Paul Tyson <phtyson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I suggest we all (Marcelo, Sina, and I) apply to join the gnuspeech
>>> project. Marcelo, send your admin request again to maintainers@gnu.org.
>>> Maybe the first was lost. We may need to follow up with email to
>>> gvc@gnu.org (GNU volunteer coordinator).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> —Paul
>>>
>>> On Mar 21, 2023, at 06:29, Marcelo Mat <marcmodroid@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> I sent an email to maintainers@gnu.org last year but they didn't reply.
>>>
>>> Marcelo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:54 PM Paul Tyson <phtyson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sina,
>>>>
>>>> Marcelo did not mention his own important contributions in this area,
>>>> including a c++ port of gnuspeech (
>>>> https://github.com/mym-br/gnuspeech_sa) and a derivative project,
>>>> gama_tts (https://mym.eng.br/gama_tts.html).
>>>>
>>>> I have been interested in this for a long time, but only as a hobbyist.
>>>> It is far removed from my daily work. I would like to see an active
>>>> open-source project for articulatory speech synthesis, but I don't have
>>>> many skills to contribute. I could perhaps help with testing and
>>>> documentation. I don't know much about text-to-speech, c++ development, or
>>>> open-source project administration.
>>>>
>>>> If gnuspeech is to continue as a GNU package, it will first need a new
>>>> admin. Are any of the current members interested in becoming admin? If so,
>>>> send a note to maintainers@gnu.org. I'm not sure the GNU organization
>>>> knows about David Hill's passing, or that the project needs a new
>>>> maintainer.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --Paul
>>>> On 3/20/23 16:09, Marcelo Matuda wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sina,
>>>>
>>>> Currently this project doesn't have an admin, after David Hill passed
>>>> away last year.
>>>>
>>>> You don't like the UI? :)
>>>>
>>>> Marcelo
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:34 AM Sina Fesahati(Encrypted Messaging) via
>>>> gnuspeech-contact <gnuspeech-contact@gnu.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've recently become familiar with gnuspeech(or GNU Speech) project by
>>>>> chance when I was discovering FTP server of GNU project.
>>>>>
>>>>> The most interesting part of this project for me was about academical
>>>>> papers and models used to develop backend side of application (which 
>>>>> mainly
>>>>> participated by professor David Hill).
>>>>>
>>>>> However this project unfortunately never got any update or development
>>>>> since 2015 , as a result I have interested to develop and also try to
>>>>> revive gnuspeech project for demand of open source community in generating
>>>>> TTS content and rely on software to use commercial and non-commercial use
>>>>> without fear of non-open-source licensing problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also have some recommendations for the future versions of gnuspeech:
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ability to speech recognition
>>>>>
>>>>> -Improving algorithms with recently published papers and mathematical
>>>>> models in sound engineering and other related branches(especially open
>>>>> access articles).
>>>>>
>>>>> -Modern User Interface (also opportunities for contributions related to
>>>>> graphical design)
>>>>>
>>>>> -Maybe alternative for commercial virtual assistants :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Sina Fesahati
>>>>> https://github.com/sinafi
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuspeech-contact
>>>>>
>>>>
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