Festival 2.4 Regression
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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festival (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Festival 2.4 breaks compatibility with HTS voices. Apparently the developers break compatibility every time they release a new version and it no longer works with the older version's HTS voices, but for a fee, they will let you use their proprietary voices... wink wink nod nod.
To reproduce, follow the very old instructions here to add an HTS voice:
https:/
Then run festival at the command line and enter this:
festival> (voice_
nitech_
festival> (SayText "Hello from Ubuntu")
Warning: HTS_fopen: Cannot open hts/htsvoice.
aplay: main:593: bad speed value 0
#<Utterance 0x7f3b2f4aaa90>
I think we should roll back to a known-good-working festival(2.1?) with HTS voices, fork that version, patch it with the bug fixes in 2.4 less the code that breaks it, and move on. There's a patch available here:
https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: festival 1:2.4~release-2 [modified: usr/share/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 28 07:48:58 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-03 (785 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: festival
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-09-29 (29 days ago)
mtime.conffile.
Workaround: Install festival from source, download voices from festival and install them, and voila! It works.