Bug#295258: ITP: festival-italian -- Italian support for festival

[Riccardo Vestrini <riccardov@sssup.it>]

Package: wnpp
Followup-For: Bug #295258
Owner: Riccardo Vestrini <riccardov@sssup.it>

* Package name : festival-italian
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Piero Cosi <cosi@pd.istc.cnr.it>
* URL : http://www.pd.istc.cnr.it/FESTIVAL/
* License : GPL
Description : Italian support for Festival
 Italian Festival is a set of modules for the Festival
 text-to-speech system which allow it to synthesize speech
 in Italian.
 It includes an Italian diphone database with both male and female
 speakers, as well as various scripts designed to speed the process
 of creating a new voice.
 It also features modules for textual/linguistic analysis and
 prosodic analysis.

 Developed by two italian public research institutions:
 - ISTC-SPFD CNR
   Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione
   Sezione di Padova "Fonetica e Dialettologia"
   Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
 - ITC-IRST, Istituto Trentino di Cultura
   Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica

 Italian support for festival has been released in Feb 2005 under
 GPL license and uploaded to Freshmeat and Sourceforge
 http://sourceforge.net/projects/it-festival/
 http://freshmeat.net/projects/it-festival-voice/

 Mentioned upstream author is the projeect leader, other developers
 can be found at
 http://www.pd.istc.cnr.it/FESTIVAL/home/people.htm

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.2
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)