KTTS - no voices found

[tippekanu]

Does anyone know how to set up KTTS? It is found in Utilities / Accessibility.
When I use "Talkers" tab, "Add", there are no voices in drop-down list to
choose from. For English there are 3 synthesizer choices - none of them will
provide a choice of voices. What am I missing here?

Thanks

[dracheflieger]

I got it working on my VM box by opening up Konsole, su to root and typing in:


cd /usr/ports/audio/festival && make clean install && rehash


You then need to install some voices basically the same way but using different targets. Here are their locations:


audio/festdoc Documentation for Festival
audio/festival Multi-lingual speech synthesis system
audio/festival+OGI Text-to-speech system with OGI residual LPC synthesizer
audio/festlex-cmu CMU American English pronunciation dictionary for Festival
audio/festlex-ifd Italian lexicon for Festival
audio/festlex-oald Oxford Advanced Learner's pronunciation dictionary for Festival
audio/festlex-ogi Composite pronunciation dictionary from ogi.edu for Festival
audio/festlex-poslex English lexicon for Festival
audio/festogi-italian Italian support for Festival
audio/festogi-spanish Mexican Spanish support for Festival
audio/festvox-abc Mexican Spanish male voice for Festival speech synthesis system
audio/festvox-aec American English male voice for Festival speech synthesis system
audio/festvox-don British English male voice for Festival speech synthesis system
audio/festvox-el11 Castilian Spanish male voice for Festival
audio/festvox-hvs Mexican Spanish female voice for Festival
audio/festvox-jph American English male voice for Festival
audio/festvox-kal16 American English male voice, sampled at 16 kHz, for Festival
audio/festvox-kal8 American English male voice, sampled at 8 kHz, for Festival
audio/festvox-ked16 American English male voice, sampled at 16 kHz, for Festival
audio/festvox-ked8 American English male voice, sampled at 8 kHz, for Festival
audio/festvox-lp Italian female voice for Festival
audio/festvox-mwm American English male voice for Festival
audio/festvox-ogirab British English male voice for Festival (non-commercial use only)
audio/festvox-pc Italian male voice for Festival
audio/festvox-rab16 16 kHz British English male voice for Festival
audio/festvox-rab8 British English male voice, sampled at 8 kHz, for Festival
audio/festvox-tll American English female voice for Festival (no commercial use)
audio/festvox-us1-mbrola The MBROLA us1 voice (American English, female) for Festival
audio/festvox-us2-mbrola The MBROLA us2 voice (American English, low-pitched male) for Festival
audio/festvox-us3-mbrola The MBROLA us3 voice (American English, high-pitched male) for Festival
audio/gaim-festival Festival speech support for Gaim


Once you've installed what you want then you need to set it up in the Control app.

Hope this helps[/code]

[tippekanu]

Thank you for the quick reply. I will try it out tomorrow!