Problems with Ubuntu Espeak 1.19 package?

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <000701c74af6$8a902060$0501a8c0 at miked3879205e8>,
   Mike Pedersen <Michael.Pedersen at Sun.COM> wrote:

> > I don't know about the details of this, but espeak has now 
> > made it into main and installs fine here.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/sound/espeak still shows "Universe".

I've just released a new version 1.20, to fix a couple of problems, and
Luke should be submitting a Ubuntu package of this in time for the
upstream deadline for Feisty.
 
> It seems as though all voices have not yet been uploaded.  The ones
> I've noticed are the UK female and the English-test-us voice.

They are there.
The female voice is now implemented by adding a variant to a voice
name.  These can now be added to any voices for different languages.
eg. -ven+13, or -ven-r+13,  pt+13, etc.

Variants +11, +12, +13, +14 are female voices, +1, +2, +3, +4, +5 are
variants of the male voice.  Actually they all just change some
parameters to adjust the pitch and "head-size" of the voice. 


> The U.S. voice would be nice to have as it does sound a little more
> like a U.S. speaker.

The new voice is named "en-r".  It's not really US English, just
changes to a few vowels.