ibmtts and 64 bit platforms

[Luke Yelavich]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:21:57AM EST, Bart Bunting wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Back on the opentts list Chris wrote a howto for installing ibmtts with
> opentts.
> 
> I have had a look and tried to follow it but it appears that with speech
> dispatcher is not honoring the audiodir variable.
> 
> As I am no expert in these things does anyone know if this is supported

Whilst I haven't tried to follow that guide, or haven't looked at that guide 
for a while, I am not sure what needs doing differently etc. However, I have 
been thinking of writing a patch to force the ibmtts binary to be built as a 
32-bit binary, should the user be building speech-dispatcher on a 64-bit 
system, with ibmtts present, and pointed to by the various configure arguments. 
This should help with the mess that one has to go through to use ibmtts on a 
64-bit machine. Yes there is the issue of ensuring we have other 32-bit libs to 
link against, but I think that this is solvable.

Luke