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If you point us to a project repository so that we can reproduce the issue, that would help.

Thanks for opening #1003! The problems you mention here are certainly worth fixing, and it's been a while since the `en.Preprocess` class received some attention. (Alas, we were much younger...

> I'm new to making pull requests on Github, so hopefully I got it right. No worries -- they also keep ~~changing~~ *improving* how that works all the time. More...

> I'll correct some of the other issues and make pull requests for those, as well. Remember that you can continue to push commits into your open PR -- no...

Great! Like I said, please feel free to push more commits into source branch of the #1003 PR. However, as I mentioned, it would be best if we [extended the...

P.S. Recall that we can probably cherry-pick your other commits into the PR's source branch after we add tests. You can push them into another branch if you want to...

What happens with you manually run the command line given in the error message?

This looks like a data problem. Since HTS is a separate project from MaryTTS, I suggest you search the web for pointers on how to solve it.

Thanks for the report! It is an early alpha, but we probably should have updated the documentation. Having said that, it might also be possible to restore the documented functionality.

> `> Failed to create MD5 hash for file '/home/elka/voice-dfki-ot/wav/ot0001.wav' as it does not exist.` The problem is not so much "Failed to create MD5", but "it does not exist"....