Hi, I'm new to both asterisk and festival. I'm trying to figure out how to change the voice festival uses. For example, I've downloaded don_diphone to festival/lib/voices/english. I then edited /etc/asterisk/festival.conf and changed the festival command to: festivalcommand=(voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n Started up festival_server, then started up asterisk, call the extension and it fails to speak with the following message on the console: == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found Feb 12 11:27:40 WARNING[409626]: app_festival.c:434 festival_exec: Festival returned LP : don_diphone I'm thinking its because when you change the voice in festival it returns the name of the new voice which may be confusing asterisk because it's expecting something else? Also, if anyone else out there is using festival, whats the best most natural sounding voice? So far the best I've found were from here: http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/download.html Thanks.
--- Tony Buser <gr0k@juju.org> wrote:> Hi, I'm new to both asterisk and festival. I'm trying to figure out > how > to change the voice festival uses. For example, I've downloaded > don_diphone to festival/lib/voices/english. I then edited > /etc/asterisk/festival.conf and changed the festival command to: > > festivalcommand=(voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk "%s" > 'file)(quit)\ntry adding a set of parens like this: festivalcommand=((voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk "%s"'file)(quit))\n <SNIP>> natural sounding voice? So far the best I've found were from here: > http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/download.htmlHave you seen "festivox"? It's a tool for building voices The key to making festival sound natural is to get the timming and entonation right. The astrisk app uses festivels "demo" test to speech application which is just that a quick dirty demo. Have you seen the markup language on the CMU site? http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html "Sable" can do MUCH better then the simple tts application. ====Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 Christopher.J.Albertson@aero.org KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html