For what it's worth, as a noob this would be wonderful. I began to follow qole's method, but gave up because it's out of my league.

I compiled esound

http://penguinbait.com/esd.tgz

This will give you esdplay but it does not good as I can see


Install esdplay, which is part of the esound-clients package:

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sudo apt-get install esound-clients

You need to configure festival so that it sends its output through ESD. Otherwise, you will get a can't open /dev/dsp error when you try to run Festival.

1.
edit
/home/user/festival/lib/festival.scm in a Terminal.
2.

Add the following lines at the end of the file:

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(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "/usr/local/bin/esdplay $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd)

3.

Save the file.



It works

Yeah Baby!!!!!!!!


(SayText "test")

I will repackage everything tomorrow, esd, with festival and the edited file to make it work.


I made a file named flite

and put this in it

/home/user/festival/bin/festival --language spanish -b "(SayText \"$1\")"

Then call flite "hola"

Does not seem to work with MM, but I am still playing, maybe $2, stupid GPS lost my lock, probably test more tomorrow

Got it!

You also need /usr/lib/esound/libesddsp.so.0 from Debian libesd0 package; our libesd0 is missing that. I manually extracted the files and dumped them in the right place.

Then, you can do Type in some text, and hit ^D. It plays back nicely.

Oh, wait, you beat me. I didn't click "post" on this (about an hour earlier when I first had it working), did I?

Oh, and start a thread, so I can slap Thanks.
Edit: I could have sworn this was in off-topic....
/me slaps thanks.

But we already have esd; just the stuff from debian esound-clients is missing; I guess you are probably aware of this, but your post makes it sound like you're packaging the whole thing, so I had to speak up...


Also, perhaps init.scm or siteinit.scm would be more appropriate than festival.scm?

esd.tgz

usr/local/lib/libesd.la
usr/local/lib/libesddsp.so.0.2.38
usr/local/lib/libesddsp.so.0
usr/local/lib/libesddsp.so
usr/local/lib/libesd.so
usr/local/lib/libesddsp.la
usr/local/lib/libesd.a
usr/local/lib/libesd.so.0
usr/local/lib/libesddsp.a
usr/local/lib/libesd.so.0.2.38
usr/local/share/aclocal/esd.m4
usr/local/share/man/man1/esd-config.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdctl.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdplay.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdfilt.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdloop.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdmon.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdrec.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdcat.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esdsample.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esd.1
usr/local/share/man/man1/esddsp.1
usr/local/bin/esdrec
usr/local/bin/esd-config
usr/local/bin/esdmon
usr/local/bin/esd
usr/local/bin/esdfilt
usr/local/bin/esdctl
usr/local/bin/esdcat
usr/local/bin/esdsample
usr/local/bin/esdplay
usr/local/bin/esdloop
usr/local/bin/esddsp
usr/local/etc/esd.conf
usr/local/include/esd.h


I even included the man files, hehe

Hmmm.. Here's more voices; my presumption about the "American Female" was wrong; that's one of the Arctic voices. And they're much slower synthesizing than the default voice, at least.

MBROLA doesn't seem to be compiled for this platform; there's some voices over here with yet a different engine, but I've no idea if they're faster or slower...

There's lots of room to work on this now, so I guess I'll have to get g++ and start digging in.

Thank you, Penguinbait and Benson, for working on my request. But excuse my question: Is there a replacement for the current flite for Maemo?

I am sorry but my head is about to explode trying to understand your posts. Tylenol, please...

In short NO

Festival works and gives you a spanish speaking voice, but flite is english only. So I could not port spanish flite.

I / we are trying to make a script to used with festival in place of flite so it will work with Maemo Mapper.

I sent a question off to Gnuite, but no response yet. I spent the weekend on the lake, so I did not get anything but a sunburn this weekend.

We are much closer now though, so maybe soon

Thank you, Penguitbait. That answer was easy to understand.