Sorry about that. I think -eval is option in text2wave. I use this and pipe into oggenc for making talking story files.
I think in tts mode you just need to add "(voice_don_diphone)" or "(what ever other voice you have installed)" $ echo "Hello World" | festival --tts "(voice_don_diphone)" I found this possibly useful thread from my mail Festival Mail Archives. Rgds RL-S > ...So I have 2 questions: > > 1. What do I have to do to any configuration files to get festival to > recognize the alternate voices? > > 2. What is the command line syntax to make this work? > They should be recognized automatically if thet are in festival/lib/voices/*/$1/festvox/$1.scm where $1 is some voice name from what you say, it looks like the are there To use them, at the festival prompt e.g. festival> (voice_don_diphone) don_diphone If this doesn't work, type festival> voice-locations which should give a list of name and directory of each of teh currently know voices. If you want to have a different voice from the whatever you get as the default. For an installation wide change of the default voice in festival/lib/siteinit.scm (create it if you don't have one), add the line (set! voice_default 'voice_kal_diphone) Or add this to your $HOME/.festivalrc If this still doesn't work, let me know. Alan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
