On Sat, 26 May 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:

> I've installed the aec voice; if I then remove us1, festival complains
> that it can't find a default voice (even though there _is_ a voice---aec).
> If I install both voices and select aec, it works.  (Well, kind of.
> There's a tendancy for the voice to trip over itself and repeat segments,
> if it's saying anything long.  E.g., it has real trouble getting through
> the Scheme statement (intro) without trouble.)

I got us1 to work. You can invoke "festival" with "-q" if the default
voice is missing, or you can set the default voice by adding, for
example `(set! voice_default 'voice_us1_mbrola)' to ~/.festivalrc.

It is kind of complicated to set up. If you have festival-doc
installed to the usual place, the user guide is at

file://localhost/usr/pkg/share/doc/festival/festival/user-manual/festival_toc.html


Frederick