I dont know who is or who knows its issues problems and solutions but I have used it for a number of years and sometimes, I just run into a wall on a solution to a issue.

Example, Currently running 1.6 and want to get Festival working properly with asterisk but it seems there is a patch issue that needs to be resolved. This is in /usr/src/asterisk/contrib/festival The patch needs to be taken care of before Festival can work properly with the extention i have setup in extentions.conf.

If anyone has sucsefully setup festival perhaps I could ask you about some of the steps you took to resolve it?