Re: festival 1.4.3 is not working on debian testing

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>]

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:44:56PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi (kk288@cornell.edu) wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all
> >   I have always received wonderful advice from this group which 
> > successfully solved my previous problems. Thanks you all.
> >
> > I installed festival 1.4.3, a speech synthesis system couple of days 
> > back. It is not working properly. This is what I did.
> >
> > $echo 'Hello world' > temp
> > $festival --tts temp
> >
> > when the last command is executed, I hear some sound but definitely not 
> > hello world. It sounds as if saying hello world at ultra-fast speed. Is 
> > there anything I need to tinker around before running festival? I 
> > googled a bit around but had no luck.
> >    
>
> Just to note, I have the same problem, no solution.
>
> Peace.
>  

I made some progress in the last couple of days. In /etc/festival.scm, 
add the following lines and it works reasonably well. Clarity is not 
that great, but "hello world" sounds as "hello world" atleast.

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "sox -v 3 -t raw -sw -r $SR $FILE -c2 -t 
ossdsp /dev/dsp")

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