Re: [orca-list] Festival

["Alex Midence" <alex midence gmail com>]

Hi, Krishnakant,

For instructions, just view the attachment I posted to the list earlier and the link Boris provided and that 
should get you started.  David was able to do this successfully.  For the voices, all you have to do to 
install them is to go into synaptic package manager, control find type festival in the search box and scroll 
through the choices.  Incidentally, you might be interested in some of the Indian voices available.  I do not 
know which one is your language but I think they have Hindi and Marathi and possibly Gujaratti voices as 
well.  I don't speak any of those languages so cannot attest to their quality but, thought I'd mention it for 
you since you reside on the subcontinent on the off chance that one of those is your native language.  I 
personally enjoy having my computer talk to me in Spanish from time to time as that is my native speech.

Be well,
Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: Krishnakant Mane [mailto:krmane gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:19 AM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: David Sexton; Orca List
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Festival

Hi Alex,
Then I would like to give 22 bit voices a try.
Can you or some one tell me hot to get festival working with speech dispatcher and how I can install these 22 
bit voices?
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 06/05/2012 06:55 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Congratulations!   You got farther than I got.  I got speech working
> all right but I never did get sound icons to work and mine worked 
> through gnome-speech and not speech dispatcher.  Try as I might, I was 
> never quite able to get speech dispatcher to see Festival so that Orca 
> presented it as an option in the available speech synthesizers.  I 
> certainly never made it as far as sound icons.  Glad it's working well 
> for you and you seem to like it.
>
> Krishnakant:  Festival's voice texture and quality depends on which 
> voice you have installed.  The 8kbps voices are kind of robotic with a 
> humanesque character to them, the 16kbps are noticeably more human 
> sounding and, lastly the 22kbps are high quality human-sounding voices 
> that can go toe to toe with some of the commercial ones I've used.  If 
> you use the mbrola voices, their quality is quite nice and 
> human-sounding as well.
>
> Alex M
>
> On 6/5/12, David Sexton<david explorechange net>  wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I got festival working in vinux 3.2 with speech-dispatcher and pulse 
> > audio, even the sound icons are working...
> >
> > only thing I had to do was follow previous instructions plus install 
> > speech-dispatcher-festival and get rid of the lines in 
> > /etc/festival.scm about czech it's surprisingly responsive!
> >
> >
> > On 04/06/12 18:53, Alex Midence wrote:
> > > Hello, Boris,
> > >
> > > I prepared instructions for people who wanted to try Festival out a 
> > > couple of years ago.  They are very strongly geared towards users of 
> > > Vinux but, I think they can be adapted to a wider audience.  I just 
> > > lack the time and motivation to do so at present.  I'm attaching a 
> > > copy of this file written in html in case you would care to use some 
> > > of its content to flesh out the guide you all have written which 
> > > does a nice job of addressing the more technical points.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Alex M
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/4/12, Boris DuÅek<dusek brailcom org>   wrote:
> > > > 4. 6. 2012 v 12:24, David Sexton:
> > > >
> > > > > Great to get instructions...
> > > > > however the files listed in the instructions give 404 not found 
> > > > > errors
> > > > the files are now online, I apologize for the errors 
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