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Zivs

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From: Riga/Dallas

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 14

Festival TTS do not want work.

I am using Natural Reader Demo for years, but now I moved to Linux and miss text to speech (TTS) software.
I figured out that best what GNU can offer is Festival, so I installed festival and  festival-awb-arctic language, but then I promt for festival - I get an error:

$ festival
SIOD ERROR: could not open file /usr/share/festival/voices-multisyn/english/cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn/festvox/cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn.scm
closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/voices.scm
closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm
festival: fatal error exiting.

If I try to enter defaults:

festival -q
Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.96:beta July 2004
Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2004. All rights reserved.
For details type `(festival_warranty)'
festival> runcis
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : runcis

Any suggestion how to fix it?

Last edited by Zivs (2010-03-14 12:18:49)

x33a

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Festival TTS do not want work.

Take a look here:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9811

If you don't find a solution, You can give espeak a try.

Zivs

Member

From: Riga/Dallas

Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 14

Re: Festival TTS do not want work.

Yes, its works. but sound is no so good as I expected
Till now best what I found for Linux is Flite.