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
>
> So did Launey Thomas (from private email).  When did you last update your
> pkgsrc, and did you build mbrola from pkgsrc as well?

I built mbrola and mbrolavox-us1 just yesterday, from current pkgsrc.
The only thing that _didn't_ get built yesterday is "festival-doc".

> > It is kind of complicated to set up. If you have festival-doc
> > installed to the usual place, the user guide is at
>
> Maybe I didn't do enough in setting it up.  As I read the info pages, it
> looks like most of the configuration is done at compile-time.  The default
> behavior seemed to be set up ``mostly sanely'', so I didn't fiddle much
> with that.  I'll see if it might be fixed by festival configuration,
> though.

I was responding to the "no default" error. Clearly, nas is ruled out,
and there's some problem with either "mbrola" or *us1. I can't
reproduce it, though. I'm running mostly NetBSD-1.5.1_BETA2/i386.


Frederick