Upgrade to Festival 2.4

[Patrick Robertson]

Festival 2.4 was released on 25/12/14. It would be great if this repo was upgraded to install the latest version of Festival.

See http://festvox.org/ and http://festvox.org/docs/manual-2.4.0/festival_toc.html for the docs.

I'm sorry, I would try and help out updating the repo but I don't know head from tail. I'm assuming the core files just need updating, and hopefully all the patches can stay the same?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

This package gets updated from Debian, and Debian still has 2.1. The best route is to update this in Debian first. I'll see what I can do to get that moving and try and get it into vivid before import and feature freeze in February.

[Patrick Robertson (robertson-patrick)]

Thanks Luke, I appreciate it.

I'll keep a close eye on what you do so that I can help out in the future :)

[Sergio Oller (zeehio)]

Hi,

I have been helping to package Festival and Speech tools in Debian for a while so I may be able to help here too :-).

Some patches will be dropped as they have been merged upstream (speech tools documentation improvements for instance) and others will need some adaptation.

Also some voices' packages (festvox-*) may need testing/changes, because festival-2.4 includes a newer version of the HTS engine that breaks (again, sigh) backward compatibility. Many people use HTS voices and fetch them from Internet as they are not packaged yet [1].

It is not as straightforward as I'd like to. I can prepare a package but some reverse dependencies will need testing.

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169

El 29/01/2015, a les 8:56, Patrick Robertson <email address hidden> va escriure:
> Thanks Luke, I appreciate it.
>
> I'll keep a close eye on what you do so that I can help out in the
> future :)
>
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> Title:
> Upgrade to Festival 2.4
>
> Status in festival package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Festival 2.4 was released on 25/12/14. It would be great if this repo
> was upgraded to install the latest version of Festival.
>
> See http://festvox.org/ and
> http://festvox.org/docs/manual-2.4.0/festival_toc.html for the docs.
>
> I'm sorry, I would try and help out updating the repo but I don't know
> head from tail. I'm assuming the core files just need updating, and
> hopefully all the patches can stay the same?
>
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[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

I see that festival 1:2.4~release-2 has been synced from Debian and is now available in Ubuntu Wily. I therefore believe this issue can be marked Fix Released.