On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:28:36PM -0800, Jack Spaar wrote: > > I don't know anything about the science behind this, but text-to-speech > > is, y'know, cool. Festival 2.0 was supposed to be out a few months ago, > > but it seems to be late. In the meantime, 1.9.5 is out there, and has a > > few nice things -- particularly, the CMU_ARCTIC voices sound really good. > > Is anyone working on updating this? If not, I'll look, although it's way > > outside of areas where I know what I'm doing. :) > An active shepherd of Festival packages for Fedora would be much > appreciated by folks who use gnopernicus (the screenreader component of > gnome's assistive technology support). Well, my first attempt at a 1.95 package results in a bunch of this sorta thing: festival> (help) SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : help which is as far as I got before having to work on other things. (There's also a problem with linking to (unnumbered) libestbase.so and libeststring.so -- need to get that straightened out.) You can get what I made so far at <http://www.mattdm.org/misc/festival/>, if you're interested in further work. I'll probably poke at it more eventually if no one more qualified shows interest. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
