Re: [gentoo-accessibility] default voice for the festival server

[Deedra Waters]

check bugs.gentoo.org, see if there is a bug already filed, if there is not, then file a bug asking  for the packages to be upgraded... If you're feeling brave, you can create an ebuild with the upgrade.

We try to keep track of new releases on packages, but there are sometimes people may forget :)


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:05:04 -0500
> From: Kenny Hitt <kenny@×××××××××.net>
> Reply-To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] default voice for the festival server
>
> Hi.  Guess I was lucky because I fog speech-dispatcher and speakup
> working on my Gentoo box the first time.  Now, if I could be so lucky on
> my Debian box.
>
> I've tried several possibilities for the AddVoice option in
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.com with no luck.
> I'm still not sure if my problem is with speech-dispatcher or
> festival in server mode.  Speech-dispatcher is the only app I have that uses
> the festival server.  I noticed there has been a new upstream release
> of speech-dispatcher and festival-freebsoft-utils.  So far, I've
> stuck to using only Gentoo packages.  I'd like to stick with that
> as much as possible.  What is the procedure for asking a Gentoo
> maintainer to upgrade their package?
>
> Btw, since festival can change to the first 3 voices it finds in
> /usr/lib/festival/voices/english/ I can delete don_diphone and
> rab_diphone to get us1_mbrola available.  Then, I can change
> /proc/speakup/voice to 2 and get us1_mbrola.  I'm using it now.
> The voice sounds better than software DECtalk or my AccentSA.
>
>           Kenny
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:23:32PM -0500, Jon Hood wrote:
> > Yes, mbrola-festival voices with speech-dispatcher can be very hard to
> > do. What you need to try first is cross your fingers and hope that this
> > is now properly supported- add the following to
> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.conf:
> >
> > AddVoice        "us"    "male3"      "us1_mbrolla"
> >
> > or something like (may need a little editing), then go into
> > /etc/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher.conf and tell it to use the
> > male3 voice. This may or may not work and is not gentoo-specific;
> > DISCLAIMER: I have been working at this for a long time without getting
> > anywhere, so 2 people playing around on it now may help out ;).
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 07:00, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > > Hi.  I'm running a festival server so I can use the festival module
> > > in speech-dispatcher.  I have the mbrola voices installed and working
> > > in a festival session.  I have the line
> > > (voice_us1_mbrola)
> > > in my server.scm file.  The server seems to use the first voice listed in
> > > /usr/lib/festival/voices/english
> > > instead of using the us1 mbrola voice.
> > > I'm seeing this on a Gentoo box running all Gentoo packages, so
> > > my problem might be Gentoo specific.  I thought I would ask here
> > > in case anyone else has had this problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >           Kenny
> > >
> > >
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>
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