Anybody heard of Fretts?

[Lorenzo Prince]

Thanks.  Is there an emacspeak server for Festival? I only know of one for
Flite.

Lorenzo

Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)
	-- Linus Torvalds, about his failing hard drive on linux.cs.helsinki.fi

Jacob Schmude staggered into view and mumbled:

> Hi
> Unfortunately I know of no way to link the mbrola voices to flite. However,
> to link it to festival is rather simple:
> There are four files in the festival voice download site:
> festvox_en1.tar.gz
> festvox_us1.tar.gz
> festvox_us2.tar.gz
> festvox_us3.tar.gz
> You only need one of these, depending on which mbrola voice you'd like to
> link it too. Extract the voices as you would normally. Next, go into the
> directory created by these voices and extract the corresponding mbrola zip
> file (make sure you preserve paths). Finally, put the mbrola binary in your
> path, mine's in /usr/local/bin.
> Now, edit voices.scm (sometimes it's location varies, mine's in
> /usr/local/festival/lib). Move the xx#_mbrola item to the top of the voices
> list, where XX# is the name of the corresponding mbrola voice. Mine is
> us2_mbrola
> and i've got it at the top of the voices list. If you don't want to edit
> that file, you can remove any other festival voices you have, so the mbrola
> voice is the only one there.
>
> HTH
>