help with voices (works) but...

[Angelo D. Marra]

I just typed what you suggested.... and, in the terminal, it spoke
english---- what is that interactive shell?


Il giorno dom, 26/07/2009 alle 20.03 +0400, Olga Yakovleva ha scritto:
> Hello ANGELO,
> If the voices you are trying to use with Orca are realy working in 
> Festival, then there should be no problems with them in Orca. I've just 
> tested nitech hts voices with Orca and they are working for me. Have you 
> tested those voices in Festival's interactive shell?
> 
> Olga
> 
> 26.07.2009 16:54, Angelo D. Marra пишет:
> >
> > 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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