Kent West wrote:
> Within the last day or so someone asked on this list about a text-to-speech
> app and someone else suggested Festival. On a whim, I did an "apt-get
> install festival" and everything appeared to install okay. However, when I
> type "festival", I get an error message about "no default voice found in
> ('/usr/lib/festival/voices/')". There is no "voices" directory (but there
> is a voices.scm" file), and I haven't been able to figure it out looking at
> the man page or searching on the web for references to festival and voices.
> Can anyone help me out here?Festival doesn't depend on the voice packages, because it's possible to use it for other tasks (the thing includes a complete scheme implementation) than speech synthesis, and for those tasks you wouldn't need voice files. It does reccommend a set of voice files. Look at dpkg -s festival. Apt ignores reccommendations, though. -- see shy jo
