I just typed what you suggested.... and, in the terminal, it spoke english---- what is that interactive shell?
Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 20.03 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto: > Hello ANGELO, > If the voices you are trying to use with Orca are realy working in > Festival, then there should be no problems with them in Orca. I've just > tested nitech hts voices with Orca and they are working for me. Have you > tested those voices in Festival's interactive shell? > > Olga > > 26.07.2009 16:54, Angelo D. Marra пишет: > > > > 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
