Re: publicizing xvoice-sphinx

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert> wrote:
> --- "Jessica P. Hekman" <http://www.arborius.net/~jphekman> wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, robert b wrote:
> > 
> > > I wish we had a "The Xvoice-Sphinx Project" web page.  It seems like it would make it more
> > > real
> > > and when people say "I want speech recognition for my Linux machine", they could point to
> > > that. 
> > > Maybe the Wiki page can serve this purpose...
> > 
> > I was thinking the same thing. I was in fact thinking we should have an 
> > xvoice-sphinx project on sourceforge -- with our own page and space for 
> > downloads. Then we could put the models on sourceforge and not worry about 
> > downloading and uploading over tiny connections.
> > 
> > Would you be interested in
> > 
> > * finding out if we can get xvoice-sphinx as a project name even though 
> > there is already a mailing list on sourceforge by that name
> > 
> > * finding out if we can move the list over to that project
> > 
> > * finding out the quota a sourceforge project gets and whether our 
> > models/LM/etc will fit in it
> > 
> > * asking the list if they think this is a good idea
> > 
> > ?
> 
> I started setting up a project on sourceforge, but found out that VA Software owns the license
> to
> the software.  I considered Savannah, but found out that any software there cannot depend upon
> non-free software.  I think the sourceforge is the lesser of two evils.
> 
> I called it "xvoice-sphinx" and it allowed me to do this.  It'll take a few days for it to get
> approved.  I'll find out the other stuff soon.

I already got the approval!  I'll start setting it up and see if I can address your issues of
moving the mailing list, etc.

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