Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add sonic.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/audio.scm (sonic): New variable.

[...]

> +        #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +         (delete 'configure))))

There’s 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 previous
> +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 espeak.
                                ^‑------------------------------------------^
Replace with “with speech engines such as eSpeak.”

> +Sonic can also be used by the sighted.  For example, Sonic can improve the
> +experience of listening to an audio book on an Android phone.")

I’d remove these two sentences.

OK with these changes.

Thanks,
Ludo’.