Dear Olga, an update: I tried the commands from teminal: it works. :--) ORCA does not, it plays only the original festival voices.... why? I can see all the voices in orca. but not all of them work.....
BTW i need a front end for festival able to play, pause, chsange speed and locus in text, more then orca. I need it to open TXT RTF PDF and DOC or ODT. files Any idea? Thanks very much. ANGELO Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 12.38 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > Hello Angelo, > Sorry for first sending it as a private message, I'm sending it again to > the list. > That instruction seems to be correct. I don't think that there is any > new information I could give you. You have said that other Festival > voices are working for you, so I assume that there are no problems with > audio output. > Let's consider one of the nitech voices (awb) as an example. > You have not described the steps you have tried and the actual results > you have got (maybe there were any error messages), so I will describe > the whole procedure. > After downloading the voice unpack the archive: > tar xvf festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.1.tar.bz2 > This should create the lib subdirectory in the current directory. > Then you need to copy the files to the place where Festival expects to > find voices. > > cd lib/ > sudo cp hts.scm /usr/share/festival/ > sudo mkdir /usr/share/festival/voices/us > sudo cp -R voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/ > /usr/share/festival/voices/us/ > > Then run Festival to check the installation. This will start its > interactive shell. You can see the list of all available voices using > the following command: > > (voice.list) > > Is the voice you are installing present in this list? If it is, then you > can switch to it: > > (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts) > > Then try to synthesize some text: > > (SayText "hello") > > You may type (quit) to exit the shell. > Sorry, I'm just repeating what has already been written in that > article,but if you get any errors during the process, please describe > those errors. > > Olga > > 26.07.2009 02:04, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > > Il giorno sab, 25/07/2009 alle 18.26 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > >> Hello Angelo, > >> I would like to help you, but there is not enough information in your > >> message, so I don't know what could be the problem. I'm also using > >> Festival on Ubuntu 9.04. You have asked only about hts voices. Do you > >> mean that other Festival voices work, but hts voices don't? > > yes this is the case > > > > i'm on a MSI 90U netbook. > > Originally there was winxp > > but as far as i know, netbook were made to work with linux. > > I do not know is it is using ALSA PULSEAUDIO or OSS, sorry. > > I perform update daily. > >> > >> Olga > >> > >> 25.07.2009 16:25, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > >>> can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival? > >>> i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 > >>> no results > >>> i'm on ubuntu 9.04 > >>> thanks > >>> Angelo > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
