2012/10/12 Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at

Hi,

in Fedora, we are interested in packaging Simon (it has been on our KDE package wishlist: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Packaging/Requests since 2009), but so far licensing issues with both Julius and HTK have prevented this. Therefore, we are very interested in your PocketSphinx backend.

Unfortunately, in your commit http://commits.kde.org/simon/a2327b27b49145c4f58d77943865981c0e47b1f4 , you removed support for building only the SPHINX backend, without the JHTK one. Why did you make that change? Is the SPHINX backend ready to be shipped? (Your GSoC report: http://blog.stvad.org/2012/08/gsoc-coming-to-end.html sounds like it is, but the above commit looks otherwise.) Would it be acceptable to package a snapshot of Simon with only the SPHINX backend?

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    Kevin Kofler

Hi Kevin,

I'm very glad that my project interested you! I've made this change based on the fact that Simon has Julius & HTK only as a runtime dependency. So there is no sense just to disable to user ability to use Julius&HTK backend. So by now you can freely build & run Simon without Julius&HTK. But if user want to use Julius&HTK backend instead of Sphinx, Simon will tell to user that he have to install Julius & HTK manually. And if user will do it he will be able to use Julius & HTK backend also. Good luck! I look forward to feedback and wishes for Sphinx backend.