[Bug 1863981] [NEW] espeak-ng cannot load mbrola language files

[Jos Lemmens]

Hello,



On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:20:55AM -0000, zapyon wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> I tried using all of the mbrola files named by espeak-ng --voices=de :
>
> Pty Language       Age/Gender VoiceName          File                 Other Languages
>  5  de              --/M      German             gmw/de
>  6  de              --/F      german-mbrola-1    mb/mb-de1
>  6  de              --/M      german-mbrola-2    mb/mb-de2
>  6  de              --/F      german-mbrola-3    mb/mb-de3
>  6  de              --/M      german-mbrola-4    mb/mb-de4
>  6  de              --/M      german-mbrola-6    mb/mb-de6
>  7  de              --/F      german-mbrola-5    mb/mb-de5
>  7  de              --/F      german-mbrola-7    mb/mb-de7
>
> espeak-ng -vmb-de1 "Test"
>
> gives me:
>
> mbrola: FATAL ERROR : cannot find file /usr/share/mbrola/de1/de1 !

apt-file search /usr/share/mbrola/de1/de1

says that you need the package mbrola-de1.
Do

    sudo apt install mbrola-de1

Hope this helps.

    Jos.

> mbrowrap error: mbrola closed stderr and did not exit
> Error: Could not load the specified mbrola voice file.
>
> It does speak, though, seemingly using a default voice.
>
> /usr/share/mbrola does not exist.
>
> The files actually seem to reside in
>
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-ng-data/voices/mb
>
> I doubt that I can solve this via a simple symbolic link because
> seemingly the expected directory structure is different: all mbrola
> files are in the mb directory; there are no subdirectories like /de/de1
> or similar.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
> Package: espeak-ng 1.49.2+dfsg-8
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
> Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.4
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Thu Feb 20 05:08:20 2020
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-03 (899 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
> SourcePackage: espeak-ng
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2020-01-18 (32 days ago)
> 
> ** Affects: espeak-ng (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Undecided
>          Status: New
> 
> 
> ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan
> 
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