Debian Bug report logs - #589614
Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices.

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:34:17 +1000

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Package: festival
Version: 1:2.0.95~beta-1
Severity: wishlist
Justification: nitech voices not packaged in Debian

I was using 1.96~beta-10 (and earlier versions) quite happily with the
attached PPA for nitech's ARCTIC/HTS-based awb voice.

Unfortunately, after upgrading festival, I get

    Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: Failed to load header of pdfs.

References to this error on the hts-users list suggest it's because
the HTS API changed and that, where the old festival accepted 2.1
voices, the new version only accepts 2.1.1 voices.

Unfortunately, there are no pre-compiled festvox packages for 2.1.1 at
http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/archives/ and I can't work out how to
generate them.

I don't expect there's much you, the Debian festival maintainer, can
do about this.  I'm filing it anyway so that there'll be a record next
time someone (e.g. me, in the future) upgrades festival and breaks
their HTS voices.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc4 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Message #10 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry@gmail.com>

To: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>, 589614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#589614: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices.

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:20:46 +0530

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't expect there's much you, the Debian festival maintainer, can
> do about this.  I'm filing it anyway so that there'll be a record next
> time someone (e.g. me, in the future) upgrades festival and breaks
> their HTS voices.

Since, you attached packaged version of it - if you're ready to become
maintainer of it for Debian - I'll be happy to sponsor the package!

-- 
Kartik Mistry
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
IRC: kart_ | Identica: @kartikm

Message #15 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

To: Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry@gmail.com>

Cc: 589614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#589614: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices.

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:14:57 +1000

Kartik Mistry wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't expect there's much you, the Debian festival maintainer,
>> can do about this.  I'm filing it anyway so that there'll be a
>> record next time someone (e.g. me, in the future) upgrades festival
>> and breaks their HTS voices.
>
> Since, you attached packaged version of it - if you're ready to
> become maintainer of it for Debian - I'll be happy to sponsor the
> package!

I'll happily maintain official packages for the nitech/arctic/hts
voices in Debian, if someone can explain how to get them working with
Debian's new version of festival -- that is, how to build the 2.1.1
versions :-(

Message #20 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Drysdale <drysdalepete@gmail.com>

To: 589614@bugs.debian.org, trentbuck@gmail.com, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>

Subject: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:00:49 +1100

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Dear Trent Buck and Festival users in Debian and Ubuntu,

I have applied a commit to the git repository for Debian festival, currently
located at:

anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git

The patch provides a compatibility module (known as hts21_engine) to allow
festival 2.1 to use older HTS 2.1 voices such as the very popular nitech
voices.
The patch must be compiled into festival.
To use the older voices a very slight change of two lines must be made to
the voice.
These lines are in a file in the festvox directory of the voice but
the name of the file changes from voice to voice. The lines to be replaced
are the following:

  (require 'hts)

must be replaced with:

  (require 'hts21compat)

and the line:

  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS)

must be replaced with:

  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS21)

Please note the compatibility module is intended to operate separately
and in parallel with the modern HTS engine known as "hts_engine".
There is no need to modify newer HTS 2.1.1 voices. They use "hts_engine".
We recommend that users move to newer voices when available as the
"hts21_engine" may not be ported to future releases in Debian of festival.

The git repository will be pushed to unstable and thence testing whenever
the usual
upload occurs.
In the meantime feel free to compile and build the package directly from our
source
git repository.

This compatibility module can in principle be applied to Debian squeeze
and/or released
versions of Ubuntu with appropriate compiling. Please contact me if you wish
to do this.

with the very best of regards,
Peter

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Message #25 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

To: Peter Drysdale <drysdalepete@gmail.com>

Cc: 589614@bugs.debian.org, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>

Subject: Re: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:15:21 +1100

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Peter,

Peter Drysdale wrote:
> anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git

I just built from here, please find attached some red tape changes
that keep lintian happy.  (Testing if my vox works now is the next
step :-)

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Message #30 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

To: Peter Drysdale <drysdalepete@gmail.com>

Cc: 589614@bugs.debian.org, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>

Subject: Re: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:50:33 +1100

Peter Drysdale wrote:
> Dear Trent Buck and Festival users in Debian and Ubuntu,
>
> I have applied a commit to the git repository for Debian festival, currently
> located at:
>
> anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git

I can confirm this work with my favourite vox, with this change to the
vox setup.  Thanks, Peter!

--- /usr/share/festival/voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/festvox/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.scm.~1~	2007-04-12 00:36:01.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/share/festival/voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/festvox/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.scm	2011-10-27 03:46:03.651376810 +0000
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@
 (set! hts_feats_list
       (load (path-append hts_data_dir "feat.list") t))

-(require 'hts)
-(require_module 'hts_engine)
+(require 'hts21compat)
+(require_module 'hts21_engine)

 ;;; Voice specific parameter are defined in each of the following
 ;;; files
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
   ;; Waveform synthesis model: hts
   (set! hts_engine_params nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts::hts_engine_params)
   (set! hts_feats_list nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts::hts_feats_list)
-  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS)
+  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS21)

   ;; This is where you can modify power (and sampling rate) if desired
   (set! after_synth_hooks nil)

Message #35 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Peter Drysdale <drysdalepete@gmail.com>

To: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

Cc: 589614@bugs.debian.org, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>

Subject: Re: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:43:03 +1100

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Thanks very much for the lintian cleanups. They have been applied to the
git repository.

I am also a fan of the awb voice which incidentally is the primary author
of festival.
The fact that I am Australian probably accounts for this bias.

I include the following clarification for users viewing BTS:
You used three lines of changes to vox setup.
I suggested only two lines are essential to modify since I deliberately
hardcoded (require_module 'hts21_engine) hidden inside hts21compat.scm.
My reason for this was to minimize the difficulties of changing vox setup
for non-programmers. Either way will work. The two line method
contains a unnecessary "require" at the price of one less line to modify.
Three line modification is more elegant. Users should feel free to use
whatever suits them best.

best regards,
Peter

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Drysdale wrote:
> > Dear Trent Buck and Festival users in Debian and Ubuntu,
> >
> > I have applied a commit to the git repository for Debian festival,
> currently
> > located at:
> >
> > anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=tts/festival.git
>
> I can confirm this work with my favourite vox, with this change to the
> vox setup.  Thanks, Peter!
>
> ---
> /usr/share/festival/voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/festvox/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.scm.~1~
>     2007-04-12 00:36:01.000000000 +0000
> +++
> /usr/share/festival/voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/festvox/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts.scm
> 2011-10-27 03:46:03.651376810 +0000
> @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@
>  (set! hts_feats_list
>       (load (path-append hts_data_dir "feat.list") t))
>
> -(require 'hts)
> -(require_module 'hts_engine)
> +(require 'hts21compat)
> +(require_module 'hts21_engine)
>
>  ;;; Voice specific parameter are defined in each of the following
>  ;;; files
> @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
>   ;; Waveform synthesis model: hts
>   (set! hts_engine_params nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts::hts_engine_params)
>   (set! hts_feats_list nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts::hts_feats_list)
> -  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS)
> +  (Parameter.set 'Synth_Method 'HTS21)
>
>   ;; This is where you can modify power (and sampling rate) if desired
>   (set! after_synth_hooks nil)
>

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Message #40 received at 589614-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>

To: 589614-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#589614: fixed in festival 1:2.1~release-2

Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:47:16 +0000

Source: festival
Source-Version: 1:2.1~release-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
festival, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

festival-dev_2.1~release-2_amd64.deb
  to main/f/festival/festival-dev_2.1~release-2_amd64.deb
festival_2.1~release-2.debian.tar.gz
  to main/f/festival/festival_2.1~release-2.debian.tar.gz
festival_2.1~release-2.dsc
  to main/f/festival/festival_2.1~release-2.dsc
festival_2.1~release-2_amd64.deb
  to main/f/festival/festival_2.1~release-2_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 589614@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu> (supplier of updated festival package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:18:09 +0200
Source: festival
Binary: festival festival-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1:2.1~release-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>
Changed-By: Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <texou@accelibreinfo.eu>
Description: 
 festival   - General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
 festival-dev - Development kit for the Festival speech synthesis system
Closes: 589614 592052 606173 639648
Changes: 
 festival (1:2.1~release-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Peter Drysdale ]
   * Commits from Jean-Philippe incorporated in master
   * Fix spelling and hyphen lintian problems
   * Move to dh style packaging
   * Remove parts of redundant namespace patching and individually title
     patches. Gcc version patching no longer needed (Closes:  #592052)
   * Provide HTS compatibility module for HTS 2.1 voices (Closes: #589614)
   * General way of adding languages from Sergio Oller (Closes: #606173)
   * Include clustergen module which is on in 2.1 (Closes: #639648)
   * Add Peter Drysdale to uploaders
 .
   [ Samuel Thibault ]
   * debian/rules: fix clean rules.
   * debian/control: depend on quilt.
 .
   [ Jean-Philippe MENGUAL ]
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no change needed)
   * Fixed debian/patches/lib_festival.scm.diff (desplays replaced with displays)
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Message #49 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>

To: 589614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: festvox-nitech-us-awb-arctic-hts_2.1-2

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:51:24 +1100

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Attached is the source package I originally submitted, with the
trivial patch necessary to make work with Debian's festival 2.x.

When changing laptop I was building from the earlier attachment and
getting confused; hopefully this post will avoid that next time.

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Message #54 received at 589614@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Trent W. Buck" <twb@cyber.com.au>

To: 589614@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#589614: Breaks nitech arctic hts 2.1 voices.

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:00:09 +1100

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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:34:17PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> I was using 1.96~beta-10 (and earlier versions) quite happily with the
> attached PPA for nitech's ARCTIC/HTS-based awb voice.
>
> Unfortunately, after upgrading festival, I get
>
>     Error: HTS_Model_load_pdf: Failed to load header of pdfs.

Attached is AWB's voice, patched as described downthread.

I'm sending this because each time I get a new laptop, I go pull the
dsc from this ticket, get the error above and go "huh?  This is fixed
isn't it?" before remembering I have to patch the vox as well as get a
recent festival deb.  Hopefully this will save me that confusion next
time.  :-)

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