Here is a great howto for setting up Festival for all your text to speech needs on ubuntu. http://bit.ly/3w8RC
You can installed Festival and mbrola using apt and the Ubuntu repositories, even with 64bit ubuntu. The version of Festival in the howto is 1.95, and for karmic it is 1.96beta. The repo version of Festival might be different for those using 10.04 or higher. With Festival 1.96beta, the instructions work fine; all the voices installed correctly and work pretty well. Caveat: I links for the festvox_us#.tar.gz files were dead, so I found these: wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us1.tar.gz wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us2.tar.gz wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/1.95/festvox_us3.tar.gz There is also a Pidgin plugin for festival. Many in the LUG might already know how to do this but I thought it would good to post a good howto for those that do not. Chris... -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
