cmu voices don't work: (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts) default voice and "ked" works: (set! voice_default 'voice_ked_diphone) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: # echo "Hello. I'm the Apple Powerbook G4 running Gentoo Linux." |festival --tts SIOD ERROR: module hts_engine required, but not compiled in this installation closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/voices/us/cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts/festvox/cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts.scm closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm festival: fatal error exiting. Expected Results: Was working with 1.95_beta-r4
This bug is because the HTS module is not compiled. The reason is the ebuild line: # disable the multisyn modules sed -i -e "s:\(ALSO_INCLUDE.*=.*MultiSyn\):# \1:" "${S}"/config/config.in which comments out all the line, including HTS module, not only the unstable MultiSyn.
I just looked this over, and the issue is that the klunits, hts_engine and MultiSyn modules are all considered experimental by upstream, and I did not take that into account in the previous ebuilds. So, there are two options. Let me know if you would prefer that I remove the voices or bring back the experimental modules. Thanks, William
Since I'm using the experimental in the previous version without problems I would say 'bring it back'. People can switch to standard voices if they like.
(In reply to comment #2) > So, there are two options. Let me know if you would prefer that I > remove the voices or bring back the experimental modules. Make them a USE option?
I would also like it to be brought back, or else made into some kind of USE option.
Please, bring back the hts option. The default voice is just too... computer-y. I used to use the female one, as it sounded the most human-sounding, computer voice. It requires the hts engine, though.
All, I have a local festival ebuild with the extra engines enabled -- I have deleted the lines mentioned in comment #1. I get the following: william@linux1 ~ $ cat .festivalrc (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts) ;; (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE") ;; (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) william@linux1 ~ $ echo "gentoo can speak." | festival --tts SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : f2b_f0_lr_start closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm festival: fatal error exiting. william@linux1 ~ $ I do not know the internals of festival all that well, so can someone provide information about this issue? Thanks, William
William, according to the wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_speechd#HTS) the problem you had above can be easily fixed. However, how did you build it? I've tried commenting out that line, but I get an error with MultiSyn when compiling...
I also tried commenting out the following: sed -i -e "s:\(ALSO_INCLUDE.*=.*MultiSyn\):# \1:" "${S}"/config/config.in However, the build errored out with: making dependencies -- hash_s_itemlistp_t.cc hash_s_itemlistp_t.cc:54:38: error: ../base_class/EST_THash.cc: No such file or directory Would this have something to do with?: sed -i -e "s:\(EST=\).*:\1/usr/share/speech-tools:" "${S}"/config/confi$ sed -i -e "s:\$(EST)/lib:/usr/$(get_libdir):" "${S}"/config/project.mak
I got it working by simply pausing portage right after it unpacked, editing out MultiSyn on line 58 of config/config.in, and letting it continue. After that, it worked fine with all the arctic and nitech voices I downloaded.
The speech engines are added back now, excluding the multisyn engine. Several of the CMU voices have issues in their scheme files, so I am assigning this to one of our developers who is familiar with scheme so he can take a look at them.
I tried to load the arctic voices and ran into the error described in this posting on the hts-users list. Applied their changes to all the arctic voices and they load now and say the introduction. http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/hts-users/spool/2007/msg00068.html I am having trouble getting duration changes to apply to the arctic voices but that might be a "missing feature".
Created attachment 180019 [details, diff] files/festival-1.96_beta-hts-voices.patch thanks for the above link, I've created a patch to fix the cmu voice files for 1.96, see attached all you need to do 1. create a copy of the ebuild in an overlay directory e.g. festival-1.96_beta-r1.ebuild 2. add epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-hts-voices.patch under the unpack section and save the attached file into the files directory 3. run ebuild digest on the new ebuild 4. and emerge
Created attachment 180022 [details] festival-voices-us-nitech-hts-2.1.ebuild an ebuild to add in the hts nitech voices
Created attachment 180023 [details] festival-1.96_beta-r1.ebuild the current ebuild I'm using for festival at the moment to add in the patch
I am re-assigning this back to myself since pchrist is away.
The issue with the CMU voices not working has been fixed in -r1. Since the us-nitech voices are a separate package and not part of the actual festival distribution, please file a separate bug requesting a new ebuild. Thanks much. William
