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...th Festival's text2wave utility. I have two lines of code: ------------------------------------ system('echo "' . $text . '" | text2wave -scale 1.5 -F 8000 -o ' . $filename . ' - '); system('echo "' . $text . '" | text2wave -eval "(voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts)" -scale 1.5 -F 8000 -o ' . $filename . ' - '); ------------------------------------ Above line works, but with default voice. Line below doesn't work anymore (it doesn't produce any output wav file) although same line from command line works. Any hint, opinion, I've...

Just curious to know if anyone uses Festival with * and whether or not you've got a different voice than the default. I'm looking at doing a commercial application but my boss doesn't want to shell out the $ before we do some real world testing of * and Festival. Specifically, I'm looking for a female voice, preferably US English. Any suggestions? Thanks, MC

Hello. I couldn't see anything in festival.conf. The voice is currently male, and robotic. How do I change this ? Regards...Martin

FYI, I found a workaround with this. Festival w/ A@H comes with 4 voices. Here's a snippet from the siteinit.scm file: ;(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_bdl_arctic_hts) (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts) ;(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_jmk_arctic_hts) ;(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_awb_arctic_hts) The default is to have the first line uncommented and the rest commented out. I changed that to have the cmu_us_slt_arctic_hts voice as the default. Now when Asterisk (or anything else...