[Tts-project] Couple questions about sudo apt-get install festival-dev

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Suresh,

Instead of addressing me, I think addressing the maintainer team (of
which I am member) makes more sense: tts-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
(in CC)

On 13-02-2020 23:31, Suresh Bazaj wrote:
>         I hope I have the right name. I am addressing you by the name
> shown on this page under change log:
> https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-universe-amd64/festival-dev_2.5.0-1_amd64.deb.html
> 
>         According to the change log, you made the most recent update on
> Jan 18, 2018 after Prof. Black moved Festival (and other associated
> source code) to Github in Oct-Nov 2017.
> 
>         Let me also introduce myself. My name is Suresh Bazaj. I started
> Hear2Read project for Indic language TTS in 2013. In fact, Hear2Read
> funded the research (under Prof. Black) at CMU to extend Festival/Flite
> to support Indic TTS. You can read about the project at
> https://hear2read.org/ .
> 
>         Prof. Black’s team continues to incorporates changes necessary
> to support Indic TTS as we submit them from time to time. For example,
> on Jan 2, ’20, this change was incorporated:
> https://github.com/festvox/festvox/commit/3e6c5c62fccaba44fdab2b02fbea43f821395d7a
> 
>         I am trying to figure out what is the best way to make Indic TTS
> source code and .flitevox files (for different Indic languages)
> available to Ubuntu users who wish to install Indic TTS using apt-get
> command.

Do you have concrete questions? I think we can help, but it's unclear to
me what problems you're facing.

Paul

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