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Announcing Festival 1.3.0.99 beta (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:42:04 GMT
From: Alan W Black <awb@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
To: festival-beta@cstr.ed.ac.uk
Subject: Announcing Festival 1.3.0.99 beta
The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 1.3.0.99 BETA
and Edinburgh Speech Tools Library version 1.1.0.99 BETA
14th January 1999
This announces the beta version that once stable will become 1.3.1.
No major changes to the core system have been made, this is mostly a
bug fix release and to allow us to release some updated voices and
lexicons, and one new voice. I hope to release 1.3.1 in a week or so.
I was almost going slip this out without a beta test but given our
current user base is now many thousands I'd maybe like to get some
friendly complaints first :-).
The following things have been changed since 1.3.0 release
last August:
egcs-1.1.1 support, RedHat 5.2
tobi_rules update (GM)
replace readline interface with editline (+ extensions)
Lots of little bug fixes
cluster code tidied up
new KAL voice, US male
improved KED, by power normalization
updated lexicons with addenda for US and UK
New LTS models for US and UK English
This release is available from
ftp://ftp.cstr.ed.ac.uk/pub/prot/BETA-festival-1.3.0.99/
If you have the time, I would be grateful if you could down load and
find out if it has any obvious problems. I believe all the external
modules I know about should work unchanged with this release as
nothing should have affected them. Also please check the new command
line editor, its a little new and probably isn't as stable as I'd
like, but it can legally be used in commercial software.
You bascially need all the files here to run the tests. I've not
built the 8k versions for release yet.
We are particularly interested in compilation/configuration problems,
as well as integration with your existing modules. If you can (or
cannot) successfully compile the system and make it pass its tests
(gnumake test in the speech_tools/, and festival/ directories) we
would be like to know.
Please address any questions directly to awb@cstr.ed.ac.uk, though
questions about the Windows port should go directly to
rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk
Thanks for your help
Alan, Paul and Richard
14th January 1999
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We have successfully run the system under the following systems
Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5.1/2.6:
GCC 2.7.2, GCC 2.6.3, GCC 2.8.1, SunCC 3.01, SunCC 4.0, egcs 1.1.1
Sun Sparc SunOS 4.1.3:
GCC 2.7.2
Intel Solaris 2.5.1:
GCC 2.7.2
FreeBSD for Intel 2.1.7 and 2.2.1:
GCC 2.7.2.1, GCC 2.6.3
Linux (2.0.30) for Intel (RedHat 4.[01]/5.[012]):
GCC 2.7.2, GCC 2.7.2/egcs-1.0.2, egcs 1.1.1
Windows NT 4.0:
GCC 2.8/egcs ??? (from Cygnus GNU win32 b19), Visual C++ 5.0.
We are particularly interested in tests under new OSs such as
IRIX, OS/2, HPUX, under which previous versions of the system did
run and we feel these should be close.
Installation instructions for people who don't read INSTALL and
are familiar with installing software.
gnutar zxvf speech_tools-1.1.0.99.tar.gz
cd speech_tools/config
cat config-dist >config
cd ..
gnumake info ( will display what we think the configuration is)
if its not ok read the INSTALL information about
changing config/config or read config/ReadMe)
gnumake
gnumake test
cd ..
gnutar zxvf festival-1.3.0.99.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festvox_don.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festlex_CMU.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festlex_OALD.tar.gz
gnutar zxvf festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz
cd festival/config
cat config-dist >config (almost everything comes from EST so
you probably don't need to edit this)
cd ..
gnumake info
gnumake
gnumake test
Of course this a assumes a normal machine (i.e. one where this works :-)
See speech_tools/INSTALL and festival/INSTALL for real details.
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