[Bug 814952] [NEW] MBROLA voices are too low

[mdmcginn]

Public bug reported:

All MBROLA voices are too low. Even female voices such as us1 sound like deep bass males. 
padsp espeak -p 99 -v us1 "Hello world"
padsp espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"

After a fresh reinstall of espeak and mbrola:

michael at doulos:~$ espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
mbrola: Binary number format error
mbrola: You are probably using a version of /usr/share/mbrola/voices/en1 incompatible
mbrola: with your machine architecture.
mbrola: Get the right one from the MBROLA project homepage :
mbrola:    http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
mbrowrap error: mbrola exited with status 215
mbrola voice not found
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: espeak 1.44.05-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8cfac2a5d6cf68ace3a811bdacd13c49
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sat Jul 23 00:27:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: espeak
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (85 days ago)

** Affects: espeak (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity

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