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K.Praveena
Asked: 2019-04-06 01:01:18 +0800 CST

festival ubuntu not working text to speech

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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 returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings

ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name

ALSA lib conf.c:4248:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib conf.c:4727:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory

ALSA lib pcm.c:2239:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default aplay: main:722: audio open error: No such file or directory

text-to-speech asterisk 14.04 festival

1 Answers

  1. I have had this issue as well. Eventually I gave up on trying to fix it directly and instead created a docker-based tool to convert text to speech using a docker image based on Ubuntu 16.04, the last version of Ubuntu where I'd been able to use Festival.

    My repo is here.

    https://github.com/kevinvandenbreemen/ttsScripts

    It's fairly specific to a certain type of text content I like to convert but you can change that by modifying the stdparse.sh file...

    Hope this helps :)

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