HOWTO: Make festival TTS use better voices (MBROLA / CMU / HTS)

I entered the first command, and it displayed:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
Package festival-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package festival-dev is not installed, so not removed
Package festvox-rablpc8k is not installed, so not removed
Package festvox-kallpc8k is not installed, so not removed
Package festvox-kdlpc8k is not installed, so not removed
Package libestools1.2-dev is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  festival festlex-cmu festlex-oald festlex-poslex festvox-don
  festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k festvox-rablpc16k libestools1.2
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 48.3MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 94574 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing festvox-rablpc16k ...
Removing festvox-don ...
Removing festlex-oald ...
Removing festvox-kdlpc16k ...
dpkg - warning: while removing festvox-kdlpc16k, directory `/usr/share/festival/voices/english' not empty so not removed.
Removing festvox-kallpc16k ...
dpkg - warning: while removing festvox-kallpc16k, directory `/usr/share/festival/voices' not empty so not removed.
Removing festlex-poslex ...
Removing festlex-cmu ...
Removing festival ...
Removing libestools1.2 ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

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Now, the Festival package is completely removed from my Ubuntu right?

After I entered:

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lsb_release -drc

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It showed this

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Description:    Ubuntu 7.10
Release:        7.10
Codename:      gutsy

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Originally Posted by MonkeeSage

Hmmmm....that's weird. OK. Try this instead:

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sudo apt-get remove festival festival-doc festival-dev festlex-poslex festlex-cmu festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-rablpc8k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kallpc8k festvox-kdlpc16k festvox-kdlpc8k libestools1.2 libestools1.2-dev

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Can you tell me the output of this command:

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lsb_release -drc

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I checked my File System after I used the 'remove' command above.

There is a 'festival' folder in my /usr/share/
The 'festival' folder (/usr/share/festival) contains a 'voices' folder and 'hts.scm' file.
The 'voices' folder has 2 other folder: 'english' which contains the MBROLA voices and 'us' which contains the HTS voices.

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Originally Posted by AcuraCoupe

I checked my File System after I used the 'remove' command above.

There is a 'festival' folder in my /usr/share/
The 'festival' folder (/usr/share/festival) contains a 'voices' folder and 'hts.scm' file.
The 'voices' folder has 2 other folder: 'english' which contains the MBROLA voices and 'us' which contains the HTS voices.

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Yes, those were manually installed. You can remove them with:

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sudo rm -rf /usr/share/festival

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Does the HOWTO work correctly for you now?

Should I remove these folder before I start the HOWTO again?

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Originally Posted by AcuraCoupe

I checked my File System after I used the 'remove' command above.

There is a 'festival' folder in my /usr/share/
The 'festival' folder (/usr/share/festival) contains a 'voices' folder and 'hts.scm' file.
The 'voices' folder has 2 other folder: 'english' which contains the MBROLA voices and 'us' which contains the HTS voices.

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It shouldn't matter -- but it doesn't hurt to remove them just in case.

I removed the festival folder, and started with the HOWTO. However
when I entered this command

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sudo apt-get intall festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k

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It gave me this error

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E: Invalid operation intall

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When I tried the HOWTO yesterday, it worked when I entered that command. I don't know what wrong now.

Nevermind, I found the error now. Because I copy your command and paste to Terminal. And the command line has a mispell of the word 'install'.

Thanks MonkeeSage

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Originally Posted by AcuraCoupe

I removed the festival folder, and started with the HOWTO. However
when I entered this command

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sudo apt-get intall festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k

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It gave me this error

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E: Invalid operation intall

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When I tried the HOWTO yesterday, it worked when I entered that command. I don't know what wrong now.

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by AcuraCoupe

I removed the festival folder, and started with the HOWTO. However
when I entered this command

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sudo apt-get intall festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k

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It gave me this error

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E: Invalid operation intall

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When I tried the HOWTO yesterday, it worked when I entered that command. I don't know what wrong now.

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Doh! Typo! That should of course be:

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sudo apt-get install festvox-don festvox-rablpc16k festvox-kallpc16k festvox-kdlpc16k

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Originally Posted by AcuraCoupe

Nevermind, I found the error now. Because I copy your command and paste to Terminal. And the command line has a mispell of the word 'install'.

Thanks MonkeeSage

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No problem. Sorry about the misspelling. I've fixed now.

I installed the standard Festvox diphone voices.

When I tested the voices, I can only hear the noise. Do I need to install any additional sound software?

This is my testing result:

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Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.4.3:release Jan 2003
Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2003. All rights reserved.
For details type `(festival_warranty)'
festival> (voice.list)
(rab_diphone ked_diphone don_diphone kal_diphone)
festival> (voice_kal_diphone)
kal_diphone
festival> (SayText "Hello from Ubuntu")
#<Utterance 0xb7195b38>
festival> (SayText "Hello from Ubuntu")
#<Utterance 0xb73e45b8>
festival> (SayText "Hello")           
#<Utterance 0xb740f8c8>

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