diff --git a/README.festival b/README.festival
index 56d985e23f..469f4a1683 100755
--- a/README.festival
+++ b/README.festival
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ do not need to be dynamically generated all the time.
 You need : 
 
 1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival
-1.4.1 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
+1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
 (asterisk_tts). 
 
 2) My patches to asterisk that provide variable substitution and quoting to 
diff --git a/contrib/README.festival b/contrib/README.festival
index 56d985e23f..469f4a1683 100755
--- a/contrib/README.festival
+++ b/contrib/README.festival
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ do not need to be dynamically generated all the time.
 You need : 
 
 1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival
-1.4.1 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
+1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
 (asterisk_tts). 
 
 2) My patches to asterisk that provide variable substitution and quoting to