Subject: Re: festival (voice synth. package)
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/26/2001 13:07:23
> > (Yes, as I read your /etc/rc.d/nasd more closely, I see that you seem to
> > set AUDIOSERVER _after_ running nasd.  But setting up AUDIOSERVER is the
> > only thing that I'm doing differently (that I know of) from last night.
>
> AUDIOSERVER is only for the benefit of the clients.

Yes, I thought so...but I misread your previous email and thought that it
was being set before running nasd.

I was running nasd, as built around mid-December, I believe.  It was the
same version as I have now, and the most recent patches were from
September, so it's odd that it should suddenly start working for me, even
after a rebuild.


> > Anyway, it's mostly working, now.  Should auwave be limited to 3999 Hz, or
> > is that indicative of a configuration problem?
>
> I guess that's compiled in.

That's a comfort.  (^&


> > Festival is still geting an FPE, in any case---but at least nas is
> > running.  (^&
>
> Have you tried some different voices?

I didn't know that mbrola was used by the voices.  But, it does seem to
be, at that.  At least by us1 (and I see mbrolavox-{en1,us{1,2,3}}.


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 probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu