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 >
