[clug-talk] Speech?

[Joe S]

On February 6, 2010 08:23:00 pm Shawn wrote:
> I'm currently using the CMU Arctic female voice.  It's not bad.
>  Though it seems they have gone to recorded snippets of sounds and
> are blending them together to build the words.  So you end up with
> some dis-connect in tones across some words.  I could be wrong as I
> haven't looked at this too deeply yet.
>
> Still, I think the female voice does a better job than the default
> male voice.  But it'll be like picking a Linux distro - try out a few
> till you find one that works for you.
>
> Shawn

I'm having a hard time to get Festival working. I am using Kttsmgr. I 
can't get any of the Talkers to work. I did a search for Festival.
These are the only packages I could find installed:

Debian:~# aptitude search ~dfestival
i   festival                                   - General multi-lingual 
speech synthesis system
i A kttsd                                      - a Text-to-Speech system 
for KDE
i A libestools1.2                              - Edinburgh Speech Tools 
Library

I'm not sure what the package is called for:"
the CMU Arctic female voice"
I'm using Debian Lenny.

Thanks