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?
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 the demo page, but none has anything about this Fiona voice.
Please, if anyone knows more about this, I need your help.
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 completely unable to change it. Our aim is to set it to use "Festival" to begin with because he can at least understand it easily.
Orca functions, but we are unable to change the voice being used. My understanding is that we should be able to change the "Speech System" option from "Speech Dispatcher" to "GNOME Speech Services". After this, we should be able to select "Festival" from the "Speech Synthesizer" options. This is based off this thread, where the exact same problem seems to have come up with no solution.
However, "GNOME Speech Services" does not appear in the "Speech Systems" options. This problem seems to be common, but so far I have not found a solution. The culprit appears to be installing libgnome-speech7 according to this thread.
When I try to install it, I get
nik@nik-P15F-v3:~$ sudo apt-get install -y libgnome-speech7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libgnome-speech7
so it seems like this package does not exist for Ubuntu 18.04, and a search seems to confirm this.
Other commands I have run are:
sudo apt-get install festival
sudo apt-get install festvox-italp16k
sudo apt-get install festvox-itapc16k
All of these executed successfully, and I am able to open Festival from the terminal and get it to read text, so Festival is definitely installed on the machine. It is just not visible to Orca for whatever reason.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. While I am not blind, he has stated that the default voice on Orca is simply too bad for him to use for any serious length of time.
If this is a known issue that simply can not be fixed, any alternatives to Orca would be greatly appreciated.
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
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...