After following the festival/speechd/mbrola howto and changing the default speech engine to us1_mbrola: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_let_your_Gentoo_speak_with_speechd#Choosing_a_Different_Voice $ echo "test" |festival --tts FATAL ERROR : cannot find file /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us1_mbrola/us1/us1 ! Cannot open file /tmp/est_03867_00000.au as tokenstream Wave load: can't open file "/tmp/est_03867_00000.au" Cannot load wavefile: /tmp/est_03867_00000.au SOLUTION: $ sudo ln -s /opt/mbrola/us1 /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us1_mbrola/ $ sudo ln -s /opt/mbrola/us2 /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us2_mbrola/ $ sudo ln -s /opt/mbrola/us3 /usr/share/festival/voices/english/us3_mbrola/ --------------- My Specs: Portage 2.0.52-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-2005-09-17 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-2005-09-17 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt css cups curl debug dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 jpeg kde live lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mbrola motif mp3 mpeg musepack ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl spell ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine xinerama xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Masked version of course... app-accessibility/mbrola 3.0.1h-r3
Hm, not sure if this is a bug. gentoo-wiki.com says you have to copy the voices as a very first step. Please not also that gentoo-wiki.com is independent from gentoo.org and therefore not an official ressource.
Ok. fair enough. It's not a bug as it's an 'addon'. I'll see about getting the wiki edited. cheers.
