Re: [orca-list] getting festival and flite to work with orca under ubuntu 12?

[Hank Smith <hanksmith hanksmith net>]

Hello is flite the same thing as far as setting it up?
if so then i may just leave that one alone as u suggest.
Hank

On 4/10/2012 6:23 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hi.
>
> You need to get festival and possibly flite to talk through pulse
> audio.  I wrote an article on how to do this.  You can find it by
> searching the vinux-support google groupe's archives.  Just go to
> www.googlegroups.com and find the vinux support list.  Once there, you
> can run a search in the archive for the html attachment.  I would post
> it here but I don't have it handy at the moment.  There's a file you
> have to edit namely the init.scm file in the festival directory under
> /usr/share  but I am going from memory here and I haven't done it in a
> while.  I will say that it was a rather colossal pain in the old
> posterior and, in the end, I was disappointed with the results and
> went right back to espeak.  Festival just wasn't fast enough for me.
> The svox pico voices were quite promising but I just haven't had the
> time to try and make them jump through hoops properly.  One thing's
> sure, you have your work cut out for you.  You'll be at it for at
> least an hour testing and tweaking till you get it going.  I very
> definitely do *not* recommend you doing it unless you have a talking
> console through speakup or yasr because there's a real risk of losing
> speech with Orca getting this to work.  and oh, but wasn't that a real
> desk pounder for me!  I'm telling you, if you have Espeak working
> already, you may find it was best to just to have let that sleeping
> dog lie a-snoozing in the end.
>
> Regards,
>   Alex M
>
> On 4/10/12, Hank Smith<hanksmith hanksmith net>  wrote:
> > Hello something else I am trying to set up under orca and ubuntu 12 is
> > festival and flite.
> > I uncommented the proper speech synths under
> > /etc/speechdespatcher/speech.conf.
> > and I have installed festival and flite speech tts engines.
> > rebootted the machine
> > how ever they aren't showing up under the speech synths under orca voice
> > speech synthisizer list.
> > is there any other steps I need to perform?
> > Hank
> >
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websites:
http://www.fivedollarfreedomplan.com/hs5leap.html
http://www.tmiwireless.com/?aid=54868
http://www.tmiwireless.com/affiliate/?aid=54868
personal email:
hanksmith hanksmith net
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/hanksmith5
Klango:
hanksmith
Skype:
hank.smith966
Amateur radio call sign:
ke7ief
check out my Youtube video of a song I recorded in Nashville Tennessee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqut5Bi3e7A
also you can find my youtube channel at:
http://www.youtube.com/hanksmith2011