News from the Festival Speech Synthesizer project

After more than a year without any significant news, the Festival speech synthesis project has posted an announcement for a new beta release. "Version 2.0 is coming at the end of July 2004. A beta version of this release labeled 1.95-beta is currently available for testing. This is the most recent version available free for unrestricted use." Changes include a new model based synthesis engine, support for gcc 3.2, 3.3, intel 8.0, and Apple OS X, bug fixes, and more.

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