This procedure worked for me to get festival running with speakup. Sending in 3 parts ... These are instructions for installing speakup with modifications to use a sound card and software speech synthesizer. Speakup is a system that sends linux console output to a speech synthesizer. Normally speakup requires an external synthesizer, but with the modifications made by Worchester Polyechnic Institute, it can use a PC sound card and software synthesizer. Following are instructions for installing festival, speakup, and the speakup mods for software synthesis. These commands were tested on slackware 9.0, using the 2.4.20 standard linux kernel. Here are the home pages for the main software components: The Speakup Project http://www.linux-speakup.org/ Linux for the Blind (Modifications to Speakup for Software Synth) http://users.wpi.edu/~blinux/ Festival Speech Synthesis System http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Install Festival The first step is to install festival speech synthesis system. The home page is here: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ The installation instructions are here: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/manual/festival_6.html#SEC12 The distribution files for festival are here: http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/speech_tools-1.2.3-release.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festival-1.4.3-release.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festlex_CMU.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festlex_OALD.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_ellpc11k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_kallpc8k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_kedlpc8k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz http://festvox.org/packed/festival/1.4.3/festvox_rablpc8k.tar.gz You may want to check and see if there is a more recent version of festival and edinburough speech tools (needed for festival), Check this page to see the latest release info: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html Not all of the above listed lexicon (festlex) or speech databases (festvox) are required. Here is a description of the files: festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz - American English male voice `kal' 16kHz version festvox_kallpc8k.tar.gz - American English male voice `kal' 8kHz version festvox_kedlpc16k.tar.gz - American English male voice `ked' 16kHz version festvox_kedlpc8k.tar.gz - American English male voice `ked' 8kHz version festlex_CMU.tar.gz - American English lexicon festvox_rablpc16k.tar.gz - British English male voice `rab' 16kHz version festvox_rablpc8k.tar.gz - British English male voice `rab' 8kHz version festlex_OALD.tar.gz - British English lexicon festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz -`Part of Speech' lexical models According to the festival documentation, you can get festival working with an american english male voice using just the following files: speech_tools-1.2.3-release.tar.gz (required for festival) festival-1.4.3-release.tar.gz (festival distribution) festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz (16kHz american english male) festlex_CMU.tar.gz (american english lexicon) festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz (lexical models) Download these five files, and any additional desired festvox (speech database) or festlex (lexicon files) to /usr/src The speech tools package needs to be installed before festival can be installed. Install speech tools: cd /usr/src tar xzvf speech_tools-1.2.3-release.tar.gz cd speech_tools ./configure make make install You can test the installation with make test The speech tools documentation indicates that the speech_tools/bin directory should be added to the PATH. One easy way to do that is to edit /etc/profile and modify the PATH there. Next step is to exctract the rest of the festival install files in the /usr/src directory. They will all extract to /usr/src/festival (the lexicon and speech databases will extract within the festival distribution: cd /usr/src tar xzvf festival-1.4.3-release.tar.gz tar xzvf festlex_CMU.tar.gz (do the same for the other festlex files) tar xzvf festvox_ellpc11k.tar.gz (do the same for the other festvox files) Then compile the festival distribution: cd /usr/src/festival ./configure make make install (Continued in next message)
