Description of problem: Fedora offers (at least) 2 speech synthesizers: - eSpeak - simple, lower HW requirements, more voices available, but the speech output sounds robotic; - Festival - sophisticated, higher HW requirements, not so many voices available, speech sounds more like human voice. Fedora comes with more than 60 voices (different languages) for eSpeak, but includes only 8 (US) English and 2 Spanish voices. Nevertheless there are more free voices for Festival available on the internet, e. g. Czech. I propose to add the Czech (or even other) Festival voices to Fedora. Here are the reasons: - it will increase quality of the OS accessibility for other groups of visually impaired users; - it will increase number of users of the Festival speech synthesizer which is already a part of Fedora; - some other Linux distributions (at least Debian) already have these voices in their repositories; - the inclusion should not be technically complicated; - there should be only small maintenance needed for future builds - the sources are static data, unlikely to be ever modified. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 22 Additional info: Four Czech voices and support files are available at http://devel.freebsoft.org/festival-czech and http://devel.freebsoft.org/festival-czech-diphone-database I filed this issue also for RHEL 7.2 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263288
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