Bug 147315

Summary:	update festival to 1.9.5 (have preliminary rpms)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthew Miller <mattdm>
Component:	festival	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ddumas
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Description Matthew Miller 2005-02-07 06:36:10 UTC

The 1.9.5 release of Festival offers significant improvements over the
current 1.4.x package. Particularly, from an end-user perspective, the
HTS (CMU "Arctic") voices sound much better than the previous ones,
and there's even *gasp* a female voice.

The release is backwards compatible with 1.4.3, so updating shouldn't
be  problem. And, this release is _basically_ what will be 2.0 --
they're only holding it up "until [they] can accommodate compatability
with newer versions of compilers". Since the current festival 1.4.3
package has in its changelog a comment about making it work with gcc
3.4, I don't think we have to worry about that -- so, this is
basically the same as what 2.0 will be.

It'd be nice to get it in before the upcoming FC4 freeze, if at all
possible.

I have preliminary packages at <http://www.mattdm.org/misc/festival/>,
which build and work on both FC2 and FC3. This should be a good
starting place for an FC-devel/FC4 package.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2005-02-07 06:41:17 UTC

Tomorrow, I'll work on integrating the suggestion from bug #75645
(don't put all that stuff in the bin directory). (Not really a blocker
for this bug, though....)

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2005-02-07 19:31:58 UTC

Updated "0.mattdm8" release of this package moves utilities from
speech-tools out of the way, hopefully addressing the bug #75645 issue.

<http://www.mattdm.org/misc/festival/>

Another approach would be to split speech-tools into its own package
(it has its own source file, after all) and put all of these
special-purpose utils in a subpackage of that. (Maybe still not
installing into /usr/bin, to avoid conflicts with the various two- and
three-letter programs.)

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2005-02-24 15:58:03 UTC

Any update on this?

Comment 4 Matthew Miller 2005-02-28 18:58:48 UTC

Cool -- package is in rawhide now. Thanks!