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Disable festival from 'noticing' abbreviations, by editing .festivalrc

The developers of the festival text-to-speech program do not seem to have been aware that DEC can stand for the Digital Equipment Corporation as easily as it can stand for December, and that SEP can stand for Somebody Else's Problem. I, for one,…
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Is there a way to get German text to speech in festival?

Searching for info about German text to speech, I came across a "Dialog-based Human-Technology Interaction by Coordinated Analysis and Generation of Multiple Modalities", as well as this page, which I can't really parse. I mean, it mentions festival…
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How to make festival evaulate its own scheme expressions from the command line, so as to change voices as needed?

I can't seem to find any documentation on this. This forum post shows someone trying to change the voice used by festival, outside of the festival interpreter, using a command-line flag. festival --\(voice_kal_diphone\) --tts "Langalist.txt" It…
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Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

I am getting an error while running festival on my system: linux: can,t open /dev/dsp I was searching for this error on the Internet and found this instruction: To solve this problem just write this .festivalrc in your home directory or…
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How to tts correctly quotes in Festival?

I'm using Festival for tts. But it doesn't read correctly quotes (apostrophes) (e.g. the words like can't, it's etc. Can I do something to fix it? Here is the output of this text.
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Using mbrola voices with festival from the command-line

I installed apt install festival #Version: 1:2.5.0-5 and apt install mbrola-de{1..7} #Version: 3.3+dfsg-4 How can I make use of this German mbrola voices in festival?
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speech-dispatcher voice configuration problems with festival

I finally got Festival working with the US HTS voices: cmu_us_awb_cg, cmu_us_jmk_cg, cmu_us_slt_cg, cmu_us_bdl_cg, cmu_us_clb_cg, cmu_us_rms_cg. I manually configured festival.scm to use bdl voice: (set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_bdl_cg) It's…
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Festival: is possible to get the output on stdout of an interactive command?

If I run festival The interactive console is opened and I run a command, for example (doc cdddr) Is possible to get the output on stdout? I have tried echo "(doc cdddr)"|festival and echo "(doc cdddr)"|festival -b but no output on console I…
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Festival CentOS 7 without Asterisk, Latin Spanish

Only I want to install a Spanish Latin voice for Festival, then I was looking for them. I'm using CentOS, but I can't find the TTS packages... I'm not Expert in this matter. I was looking for using google, but the information I found is Ubuntu and…
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How to resolve Festival tts command returning `lexicon english_poslex not defined` error?

I have installed festival tts. Now when I try running echo "Helllloooo! Is anyone home?" | festival --tts I get the output lexicon english_poslex not defined How do I resolve this error? I'm running Linux Mint by the way.
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How to get sudo insults only through festival?

I just found out sudo insults, and I would think it would be fun to get those slanders out through festival, but only the insults - how to do that on Linux?
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