On Sun, 27 May 2001, Richard Rauch wrote:

> > I was responding to the "no default" error. Clearly, nas is ruled out,
>
> Maybe we're talking at cross-purposes, here.  The only explicit problem
> I've had with defaults is that if I only have the aec (diphone) voice
> installed, festival claims that it can't find any voices.  If I have us1
> (mbrola)  installed, then I can at least get festival more or less
> running.

This is even with the default set in ~/.festivalrc to your desired voice?

> The problem that has my attention is that mbrola seems to dump core with
> an FPE (I get an mbrola.core if I'm in a directory that I can write).
> The only way around this is to use a non-mbrola voice (even though it
> seems like I may need to have an mbrola voice available just to get
> festival to play ball).

I see. It looks like mbrola is an a.out executable. Do you, by any
chance, have some of the COMPAT_* options disabled in your kernel?
From running "ktrace mbrola -h; kdump | grep CALL", I can see that you
would need COMPAT_13 and COMPAT_14, at least.


Frederick