Public bug reported: 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://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169&page=18
Then run festival at the command line and enter this: festival> (voice_nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts ) nitech_us_slt_arctic_hts 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://aur.archlinux.org/packages/festival-patched-hts/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: festival 1:2.4~release-2 [modified: usr/share/festival/hts.scm usr/share/festival/voices.scm] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21 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..etc.festival.scm: 2016-10-17T19:31:25.018208 ** Affects: festival (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637567 Title: Festival 2.4 Regression To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/1637567/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
