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-release.tar.gz ...then followed following step ...
cd /usr/share/festival/voices/english/
sudo tar jxf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s cmu_us_clb_arctic cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits
sudo cp /etc/festival.scm /etc/festival.scm.backup
sudo echo "(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)" >> etc/festival.scm
error is bash : /etc/festival.scm : permission denied...
so I used the following command =
gksu gedit /etc/festival.scm
after that /etc/festival.scm file is opened and then at the end of file I typed
(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)
and then I saved it after that i typed festival on terminal it has given following error :
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : f2b_f0_lr_start
closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm
festival: fatal error exiting.
so i again opened /etc/festival.scm and removed that
(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_clb_arctic_clunits)
and then it started to work...so please tell me how to change voice from male to female...
I have the same error with the same voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts voice (on Raspberry Pi's port of Ubuntu).
I specifically need that Edinburgh-accented voice rather than any of the others in that package (which I haven't even downloaded - space is limited on the RPi)
The error doesn't happen if you substitute 'kal_diphone' for 'us_awb_arctic_hts'.
Does this help?
FOUND IT! There's a commented-out line in /usr/share/festival/voices/english/cmu_us_awb_arctic_clunits/festvox/cmu_us_awb_arctic_f0model.scm:
just add it back in...