hi, I believe it is a known bug in Vinux espeak-data As earlier i suggested going into the US espeak directory adn removing all files other than default and US that will fix the problem. On 04/06/11 22:58, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > Jeremy, > Unfortunately I have no idea why it would do that. Have you ever > actually heard the US voice? I mean, do you know for sure what you're > hearing isn't the US one? I don't mean any offense by that, it's just > that I've heard people say the US voice sounds horible and has a weird > accent, even though I've never noticed that myself. I personally use it > all the time. I do know that the default voice has an accent. Is it > possible you're not getting the US voice? > > I suggest you try this. > > 1. Stop the espeakup service, how ever you do that in debian. > > 2. Run espeakup manually like this: > > espeakup --default-voice=en-us > > See if that gives you the US voice or the one you don't want. If it > does, then the problem is with the startup scripts, not with anything > involving espeak or espeakup.
