Re: Festival+MBROLA

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Gossamer wrote:
> I'd like to install the voice_rab_mbrola voice to Festival but
> there doesn't seem to be a package for it, even in non-free.  The
> blurb is this:
>    voice_rab_mbrola
>           The Roger diphone set using the same front end as
>           voice_rab_diphone but uses the MBROLA diphone synthesizer for
>           waveform synthesis. The MBROLA synthesizer and Roger diphone
>           database (called en1) is not distributed by CSTR but is
>           available for non-commercial use for free from
>           `http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html'. We do however
>           provide the Festival part of the voice in `festvox_en1.tar.gz'.
>           Some people consider this the best sounding voice in Festival.

It's not debianized for a number of reasons, not least because
ftp://ftp.cstr.ed.ac.uk/pub/festival/1.3.0/festvox_en1.tar.gz is corrupted.

If you can point me at a non-corrupt version of that file, I'll consider
packaging it.

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