5.3.0-beta1 Release Checklist

[psibre]

• Ensure minimal JDK version is active
• Update CHANGELOG
• Increment project.version to release
• Commit to master
• Run ./gradlew clean build
• Run git tag -am'Release v5.3.0-beta1' v5.3.0-beta1
• Run ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
• In maven branches of marytts-txt2wav, upgrade version of voice-cmu-slt-hsmm depenency to 5.3.0-beta1, then test
• Do the same for gradle branch (add mavenLocal() to repositories)
• Run ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
• Login to JCenter, publish artifacts
• Increment project.version to next release with -SNAPSHOT suffix
• Update CHANGELOG
• Commit to master
• Push release tag and master to upstream
• Create new Release on GitHub, paste section from CHANGELOG
• Upload release assets

[psibre]

Further updates to voicebuilding plugin, voices, and website...

[seblemaguer]

What do you mean by "Ensure minimal JDK version is active"

[psibre]

We want to compile on the minimum supported to avoid UnsupportedClassVersionErrors by downstream runtimes. So build the release with Java 8.

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On June 28, 2019 12:51:56 PM GMT+02:00, "Sébastien Le Maguer" ***@***.***> wrote: What do you mean by "Ensure minimal JDK version is active"

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[NeuroNoNeuro]

After much searching, I found this method to try and contact those working on the MaryTTS application.

I love it, use it for various musical projects! Not being a programmer (not at all a programmer), yet having access to beautiful TTS voices via the CMU Arctic library is great. Will there be more voices that I can add (US English only) maybe to the 5.2 release, if not the next release? I have been following along on GitHub, but it’s all in a language that is difficult for me to understand (code-talk). I also have brain damage from three brain surgeries, so coding/language just doesn’t stick.

I’m eager to learn more - will there be an updated UI? Will the next version have a build for each platform, versus java binary files? Will there be other US English voices?