Festival 1.95:

[Janina Sajka]

Steve Dawes writes:
> When I look in the voices directory, all I see are the hts and diphone
> So, now I need to go and find the mbrola voices.
> That kinda bugs me that they are not part of the 195 RPMS.
> 
If memory serves, it's a matter of license. That's why mbrola is not
packaged.

However, rpms of Festival 1.95 are most certainly available. Did you
Google for them? You can find them exactly where you should expect to
find packages of new releases which are undergoing a testing process.
You do know where that is, right?

> 
> Steve
> Steve Dawes
> Calgary Canada
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 5:35 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Festival 1.95:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I don't know if Fedora has pre-built packages for festival 1.95, but the
> following is what I had to do with it from source in slackware.
> Download festival and the desired voices. Build it and install it as told in
> the INSTALL file. Install mbrola and put the voices I wanted in the
> appropiate directory in the festival voice directory. Set the default voice
> in the siteinit.scm file. The voice names for mbrola that you would put in
> the file are voice_us1_mbrola, voice_us2_mbrola, voice_us2_mbrola and so on.
> If there are rpm packages for fedora, make sure you have the mbrola voices
> installed if you want them, they are not always included by default (gentoo
> did not have them in the standard package).
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> "An optimist is someone who has never had much experience"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dawes, Stephen" <Stephen.Dawes at calgary.ca>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:19 PM
> Subject: Festival 1.95:
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with festival 1.95.
> I am trying to set the default voice in the siteinit.scm file to
> us1_rmbola. All I get is errors. I am sure that I am missing something,
> but can't figure out what.
> The error message is siod variable undefined.
> 
> I should also add that I am trying to get festival 1.95 working on a
> fedora core 3 box.
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
> 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
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