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Similar problem has been detected:

there were a number of missing builddep for festival there mostly texlive packages i tryed running it again but i still get segmnetation faults

reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        festival
crash_function: EST_Item::EST_Item
executable:     /usr/bin/festival
global_pid:     3616
kernel:         4.6.7-300.fc24.i686
package:        festival-1.96-32.fc24
pkg_fingerprint: 73BD E983 81B4 6521
pkg_vendor:     Fedora Project
reason:         festival killed by SIGSEGV
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            1000

The Festival package in Fedora needs a lot of work to update to a newer release, fix a lot of bugs, and generally clean up the packaging. And, despite best intentions, we just haven't had the developer interest in doing so. 

The current plan is to retire Festival from Fedora. See thread at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOL4ETKKOFGTFZZ36V726OF7UTHYMEYP/ for discussion.

Despite being large, slow, and fragile, Festival is interesting software and as far as I know can produce the best quality results of any open-source TTS system. It would be nice if there is interest in continuing it, but that should probably be done from a clean slate in any case.

In the meantime, I think it's most honest to close the currently-open bugs as "WONTFIX". Thanks everyone for your reports and effort in making Fedora better.

Hi,
I have tried to rebuild festival with version 2.4 (latest release). Add for the test oald, add patch from Debian to be more strict about boundaries in HTS and anable support for HTS2.1 format. 

Nothing helped so far. The bug remains exactly the same.

Here is the 2.4 src.rpm and a backtrace for the case somebody would like to start where I ended:
https://rebus.fedorapeople.org/SRPMS/festival-2.4-1.fc24.src.rpm


$ gdb --args festival --tts
run
Hello World

gdb$ bt
#0  EST_Item::EST_Item (this=0x62a370, rel=0x62a3b0, li=0x0) at EST_Item.cc:167
#1  0x00007ffff742fefd in EST_Relation::append (this=0x62a3b0, si=0x0) at EST_Relation.cc:98
#2  0x00007ffff7b62f3d in add_token (u=u@entry=0x700590, t=...) at text_aux.cc:47
#3  0x00007ffff7b62393 in tts_chunk_stream (ts=..., app_tok=app_tok@entry=0x7ffff7b61840 <tts_raw_token(EST_Item*)>, app_utt=app_utt@entry=0x7ffff7b61850 <tts_raw_utt(LISP)>, eou_tree=0x7fffe2f135b0, utt=0x7fffe306af30, utt@entry=0x0) at text.cc:242
#4  0x00007ffff7b62923 in tts_file_raw (filename=filename@entry=0x7fffe3068530) at text.cc:169
#5  0x00007ffff7b62ba7 in tts_file (filename=filename@entry=0x7fffe3068530, mode=0x7fffe2f23230) at text.cc:106
#6  0x00007ffff782c162 in leval (x=<optimized out>, qenv=qenv@entry=0x0) at slib.cc:1432
#7  0x00007ffff7b26ddc in festival_eval_command (command=...) at festival.cc:187
#8  0x00007ffff7b27612 in festival_say_file (fname=...) at festival.cc:243
#9  0x000000000040284f in ?? ()
#10 0x00000000004017e9 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007ffff5e9f731 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#12 0x0000000000401849 in ?? ()

Similar problem has been detected:

text file with "this is an example"

try festival --tts example.txt

segfault everytime.

reporter:       libreport-2.7.2
backtrace_rating: 3
cmdline:        festival --tts
crash_function: EST_Item::EST_Item
executable:     /usr/bin/festival
global_pid:     3210
kernel:         4.8.4-200.fc24.x86_64
package:        festival-1.96-32.fc24
pkg_fingerprint: 73BD E983 81B4 6521
pkg_vendor:     Fedora Project
reason:         festival killed by SIGSEGV
runlevel:       N 5
type:           CCpp
uid:            1000

Yes Eduard both "--tts" from file or stdin fail within the same functionality.
Same also for:

$ festival

Festival Speech Synthesis System 2.4:release December 2014
Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2010. All rights reserved.

clunits: Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh and CMU 1997-2010
clustergen_engine: Copyright (C) Carnegie Mellon University 2005-2014
hts_engine: All rights reserved.
For details type `(festival_warranty)'
festival> (SayText 'hello)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

It triggers the same bug I believe ... always EST_Item::EST_Item.
Problem is that it is not hit on the first and every invocation of this class/method. Just at some point down the street it crashes - probably some memory management.