rvijay07 wrote:
This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed.
If your sure that your sound system is working OK outside festival, you are probably missing one of the voices. $ apt-cache search festvox festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival $ echo "Festival is great" | festival --tts Richard