Hi, I am currently playing around with speech synthesis and installed mbrola, speechd and festival.
It works so far: I am getting the default english voice, which tells me what time it is. Then I was trying to follow some docs from the internet to install/activate different voices...no go. Even the simplest case -- the uncommenting of a prepared line -- in the /etc/festival/siteinit.scm from ;; If you want a voice different from the system installed default ;; uncomment the following line and change the name to the voice you ;; want ;; (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts) to ;; If you want a voice different from the system installed default ;; uncomment the following line and change the name to the voice you ;; want (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts) leads to an error message: SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts Voive not installed? /usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts No...it is there... Unfortunately I am no lisp-man... ;) I restarted festival/speechd ... no success ... same error. May be I miss some very fundamental thing here...but... What do I have to do, to get this beast talking to me ? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc