festival 1.95 anyone?

[Jack Spaar]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:50:56 -0500, Matthew Miller 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).

--Jack