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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 ha...

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

...ce as fast as it does coming from festival over the speakers. And, if you are having it say jokes at double speed, well, it reminds me of speed reading. There must be some lever or pulley or switch or something to modify the speed. AND Hoo boy, try putting this in your siteinit.scm file: (set! voice_default 'voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn) and listen to this: (SayText "Hello there, kyootee pie.") (SayText "Don't you just love the sound of my voice.") (SayText "My wife, Sonya, Makes the best bread there ever was") Best synthetic voice I've ever heard. m...

...is mbrola U.S. 3") (tts "text_to_read" nil) (voice_en1_mbrola) (SayText "This is mbrola E.N. 1") (tts "text_to_read" nil) If you are able to decide on a particular voice, you can make it the default by including your lines in the lib/siteinit.scm file: (set! voice_default 'voice_cstr_us_awb_arctic_multisyn) (provide 'siteinit) My advice is to play around with the system and read the docs. There is no substitute. I've published my WhoIsIt-1.1.tar.gz tarball with some scripts to generate files from festival, for all the country names, and the physical lo...