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Bug 480296

Summary: app-accessibility/festival-2.1 with app-accessibility/festival-hts-2.1 - Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: Failed to load header of pdfs.
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Jeff <israeljr>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: normal CC: accessibility, sound, troy
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: http://bugs.debian.org/589614
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Description Jeff 2013-08-08 23:26:24 UTC
festival using festival-hts voices does not work.  Apparently festival-hts-2.1 is not compatable with festival-2.1 without a patch.


Installed apps:
  app-accessibility/festival-2.1
  app-accessibility/festival-hts-2.1

Configuration:
  File
    /etc/festival/siteinit.scm
  Settings
    (set! voice_default 'voice_nitech_us_bdl_arctic_hts)

Error:
  Executing:
    $festival --tts Desktop/Downloads/when.the.tripods.came.txt
  Outputs:
    Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: Failed to load header of pdfs.

Solution:
  Both festival-hts-2.1 and festival-2.1 need to be patched.  Patches have been created for festival-hts-2.1 and festival-2.1 to get festival-hts voices to work in debian.  
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589614  
  Then someone created an overlay ebuild for this
    http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7313616.html
    http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=user/gentoo-vn.git;a=tree;f=app-accessibility;hb=HEAD
Comment 1 Troy Bowman 2013-09-06 22:16:40 UTC
For what it's worth, I can confirm that festival-hts-2.1 is broken currently in its current state in gentoo: it does not work with festival-2.1.  I can also confirm that the patches and ebuild changes for festival and festival-hts in the gentoo-vn overlay as mentioned above fix the problem.

Applying the patches as implemented in the gentoo-vn overlay could not make things any worse because they are already broken.  Rather, it'd possibly fix it.  :)
Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2019-08-31 07:45:08 UTC
Package(s) removed.