help with voices (works) but...

[Angelo D. Marra]

Dear Olga,
an update: I tried the commands from teminal: it works. :--)
ORCA does not, it plays only the original festival voices.... why?
I can see all the voices in orca. but not all of them work.....


BTW  i need a front end for festival able to play, pause, chsange speed
and locus in text, more then orca.
I need it to open TXT RTF PDF and DOC or ODT. files
Any idea?


Thanks very much.
ANGELO 

Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 12.38 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto:
> Hello Angelo, 
> Sorry for first sending it as a private message, I'm sending it again to 
> the list.
> That instruction seems to be correct. I don't think that there is any 
> new information I could give you. You have said that other Festival 
> voices are working for you, so I assume that there are no problems with 
> audio output.
> Let's consider one of the nitech voices (awb) as an example.
> You have not described the steps you have tried and the actual results 
> you have got (maybe there were any error messages), so I will describe 
> the whole procedure.
> After downloading the voice unpack the archive:
> tar xvf festvox_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts-2.1.tar.bz2
> This should create the lib subdirectory in the current directory.
> Then you need to copy the files to the place where Festival expects to 
> find voices.
> 
> cd lib/
> sudo cp hts.scm  /usr/share/festival/
> sudo mkdir /usr/share/festival/voices/us
> sudo cp -R voices/us/nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts/ 
> /usr/share/festival/voices/us/
> 
> Then run Festival to check the installation. This will start its 
> interactive shell. You can see the list of all available voices using 
> the following command:
> 
> (voice.list)
> 
> Is the voice you are installing present in this list? If it is, then you 
> can switch to it:
> 
> (voice_nitech_us_awb_arctic_hts)
> 
> Then try to synthesize some text:
> 
> (SayText "hello")
> 
> You may type (quit) to exit the shell.
> Sorry, I'm just repeating what has already been written in that 
> article,but if you get any errors during the process, please describe 
> those errors.
> 
> Olga
> 
> 26.07.2009 02:04, Angelo D. Marra пишет:
> > Il giorno sab, 25/07/2009 alle 18.26 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto:
> >> Hello Angelo,
> >> I would like to help you, but there is not enough information in your
> >> message, so I don't know what could be the problem. I'm also using
> >> Festival on Ubuntu 9.04. You have asked only about hts voices. Do you
> >> mean that other Festival voices work, but hts voices don't?
> > yes this is the case
> >
> > i'm on a MSI 90U netbook.
> > Originally there was winxp
> > but as far as i know, netbook were made to work with linux.
> > I do not know is it is using ALSA PULSEAUDIO or OSS, sorry.
> > I perform update daily.
> >>
> >> Olga
> >>
> >> 25.07.2009 16:25, Angelo D. Marra пишет:
> >>> can some one help me in istalling hts voices for festival?
> >>> i triedhttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169
> >>> no results
> >>> i'm on ubuntu 9.04
> >>> thanks
> >>> Angelo
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>