Hello, There is currently some momentum to make espeak-ng able to use mbrola voices. I am thus uploading them to Debian. Here is the list of ITPs:
Bug#896026: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ar1 -- Arabic male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896027: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ar2 -- Arabic male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896029: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ca1 -- Canadian French male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896030: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ca2 -- Canadian French male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896031: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-cn1 -- Chinese female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896028: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-bz1 -- Breton female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896032: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-cz1 -- Czech female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896033: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-de8 -- German-Bavarian male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896034: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-es3 -- Spanish female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896035: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-es4 -- Spanish male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896036: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-fr2 -- French female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896037: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-fr3 -- French male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896038: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-fr5 -- French Belgian male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896039: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-fr6 -- French male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896040: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-fr7 -- French Belgian male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896041: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-hb1 -- Hebrew male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896042: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-hb2 -- Hebrew female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896043: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-hn1 -- Korean male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896044: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-in1 -- Hindi male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896045: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-in2 -- Hindi female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896046: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-it1 -- Italian male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896048: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-jp1 -- Japanese male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896047: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-it2 -- Italian female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896049: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-jp2 -- Japanese female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896050: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-jp3 -- Japanese female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896051: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-ma1 -- Malay female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896052: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-nl1 -- Dutch male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896053: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-nl3 -- Dutch female voice for Mbrola) Bug#896054: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-nz1 -- Maori male voice for Mbrola) Bug#896055: Acknowledgement (ITP: mbrola-tl1 -- Telugu female voice for Mbrola) They have the same structure, here for "Arabic male" (ar1) Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2018-04-18 Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> * Package name : mbrola-ar1 Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechnique de Mons - mbrola team <mbr...@tcts.fpms.ac.be> * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in the source zip: non-free as in without source code, and for non-commercial, non-military purposes, with and only with the mbrola package made available by the author. Description : Arabic male voice for Mbrola This package contains an Arabic diphone database provided in the context of the MBROLA project see: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/ . It provides an Arabic male voice to be used with the MBROLA program. Samuel