Questions tagged [festival]
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Manually install voices in festival [duplicate]
I am using festival as the natural reader in ubuntu, and I have been trying to download voices from CMU website and place them into /usr/share/festival/voices/ However, none of the manually ...
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How to install and use latest Nitech HTS voices for festival on Ubuntu 20.04
I see that there are now Nitech HTS voices 2.3.2 available for download. On Ubuntu 20.04 festival 2.5.0 gets installed. How can I install and use latest Nitech HTS voices for festival on Ubuntu 20.04?
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Speech Dispatcher not working after changing voice to Festival
I followed these instructions for how to change the default voice for spd-say from espeak to festival hoping that would allow me to use festival in Chrome with a text-to-speech extension I have ...
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Festival text-to-speech ignores `current-voice` defined in `.festivalrc` in 20.04
On Ubuntu 18.04 I had in my ~/.festivalrc
(voice.select 'en1_embrola)
which works as expected.
However after upgrading to 20.04 my default voice is kal_diphone
On festival's interactive shell (...
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18.04.1 desktop: How to install the 'Fiona' voice that is present in the Festival TTS demo page
I want to dl/install the Fiona voice that is present on the Festival TTS demo page. I have searched around and found instructions on downloading and installing many other voices that are present in ...
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Unable To Change The Voice In Orca To Use Festival In Ubuntu 18.04
I am assisting a blind friend with the transition from Windows to Linux. We have installed Ubuntu-MATE 18.04. Unfortunately, he hates the default voice used by Orca, and we have thus far been ...
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festival ubuntu not working text to speech
Can anyone help this out,
my cli log shows following like this,
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver
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SIOD ERROR: not a number
Some times when i use (SayText " ")
it gives the following error: "SIOD ERROR: not a number". For example:
festival> (SayText "ਮੇਰਾ ਨਾਮ") means (SayText"mera naam")
SIOD ERROR: not a number ...
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How to make festival speak on graphical login in xfce4?
I've got Ubuntu Studio 16.04 with xfce4.
My goal is to run festival, the speech generator, whenever I log in into the graphical desktop environment.
Making festival say something in the terminal ...
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Festival error when trying to use SayText
When I enter Festival via the command:
festival -q
and attempt to utilize SayText, I get the following error:
festival> (SayText "hello")
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : SayText
Why does this ...
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Festival- how to make speech synthesis read numbers like "1325.25" as "one three two five point two five"?
I am using Ubuntu 15.10. In Libreoffice calc, I am using an extension "read text" to read numbers using Festival speech synthesis.
How to set up Festival speech synthesis to read numbers like "1325....
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howto change voice in festival
in my /usr/share/festival/voices/english....I have kal_diphone folder which is English male voice but now I want to change English male voice to female voice so ..I downloaded " cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-...