Questions tagged [festival]

The Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems.

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SIOD error unbound variable while changing the voice in Festival

I am defining the new voice (Punjabi) in festival using diphone concatenation approach. I have created all the necessary files. but while I tried to change the voice from English to Punjabi then i get SIOD…
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Debug a Adobe AIR application which uses NativeProcess API to invoke a executable

How can I find the return value of a executable which has been invoked by a AIR app using the NativeProcess API? I am using Flash Builder 4. The following c++ generated executable festival --tts "HelloSpeak.txt" works fine on the Windows cmd line…
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how to set PulseAudio streams for accessibility purposes

I have a small Python script that sets up PulseAudio such that the Festival speech synthesis program can pipe synthesised speech into Skype calls. This is to enable someone that is unable to speak to have a voice at regular Skype group meetings. It…
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SIOd: ran out of storage in festival

While running the C++ code for festival,i am using multiple languages like american diaphone,italian etc. but when after playing for one language,i select another language then the terminal shows the error "SIOD:ran out of storage" and does not do…
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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llibeststring.a

I am using festival TTS c++ API in my program.I have downloaded all files from http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/festival/2.0.95/ and install festival and speech_tools successfully on my UBUNTU 10.04 now when compile my c++ programme gcc gives…
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Toolkits to design a TTS (Text-to-speech) system for a custom language?

I'd like to create a TTS system for a native american language (wayuunaiki). The language is written in latin (western) alphabet. I also have information about the phonetics (the rules to convert each word into IPA symbols). I'm planning to create a…
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Debugging a Scheme program

I am using Festival, a text-to-speech synthesizer, for a project. It has a Scheme scripting language. I'm very new to scheme and hope someone can help. I just want to see the current configuration parameters of Festival. I have a Scheme prompt…
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Exec() command in Linux does not perform any action from a PHP page

I'm trying to run the following command from a PHP file in a web browser: exec('festival --tts /var/www/test.txt &'); Unfortunately, nothing happens. I thought of trying 'echo' but there is nothing to return to see if the command is working. I…
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Convert festival tts to flite tts

i currently have a tts which is built using festival and festvox. i need to convert these voices and build a TTS in flite. apparently you can do the conversion using festvox (the festvox and flite websites say so but no proper steps on how to do…
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Ambiguous overload for 'operator='

I am trying to compile some C++ code from the Festival project. When I compile Festival, I get the following errors: Making in directory ./src ... Making in directory src/arch ... Making in directory src/arch/festival ... Making in directory…
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How to change Festival server_port

Can anyone tell how to change the server_port in Festival? I tried changing it using set! server_port 1315 but after that the server_port still has 1314 the default value. Can anyone try to solve this?
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Where are the wav files stored in Festival?

I am trying to work with Festival and trying to synthesize a word with the default diphone based voices that come pre-loaded (voice_kal_diphone). I would like to add a few more words in my voice that are currently out-of-dictionary. I am unable to…
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Compiling festival TTS C/C++ example

I tried to compile the example from here with no luck. This is the command that i used g++ festival_test.cpp -Ifestival/src/include/ -Ispeech_tools/include/ -Lfestival/src/lib/ -Lspeech_tools/lib/ -lFestival -lestools -leststring -lestbase and the…
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German text-to-speech on iPhone (Flite/Festival voices? other options?)

I'm looking to use English, German, French, Spanish and Italian text-to-speech in an iPhone application. It looks like Flite is basically the only option. http://festlang.berlios.de/docu/doku.php?id=languages lists all the voices I need, however all…
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HTS voice is not running on festival version 2.5

I have downloaded the hts voices from festival repository and each time its showing rateconv: failed to convert from 16000 to 0 speech_tools containing EST_Wave.cc have this converting method but its getting failed I tried same thing in festival 2.2…
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