How to install festival Spanish support?

[Mariano Draghi]

How can I install "festival" Spanish support in FC4?
It seems that the default RPM comes only with English. I couldn't find 
any additional festival RPMs either in core or in extras (other than the 
devel RPM, which I pressume won't install any additional language...)

If I do
$ festival --language spanish
I get a
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_el_diphone
festival: fatal error exiting.

After Googlin' a while, it turns out that the error menans the specified 
language's files aren't installed.
The output of
$ rpm -ql festival
reveals that there's no '/usr/share/festival/voices/spanish' files.

Is there a package with the other languages? ("yum list festival*" says 
there isn't)

-- 
Mariano

[Tom Broadhurst]

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>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Mariano Draghi
>  Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 1:14 PM
>  To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
>  Subject: How to install festival Spanish support?
>  
>  
>  How can I install "festival" Spanish support in FC4?
>  It seems that the default RPM comes only with English. I 
>  couldn't find 
>  any additional festival RPMs either in core or in extras 
>  (other than the 
>  devel RPM, which I pressume won't install any additional language...)
>  
>  If I do
>  $ festival --language spanish
>  I get a
>  SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_el_diphone
>  festival: fatal error exiting.
>  
>  After Googlin' a while, it turns out that the error menans 
>  the specified 
>  language's files aren't installed.
>  The output of
>  $ rpm -ql festival
>  reveals that there's no '/usr/share/festival/voices/spanish' files.
>  
>  Is there a package with the other languages? ("yum list 
>  festival*" says 
>  there isn't)
>  
>  -- 
>  Mariano
>   
Mariano,

You have to do a little work, but check out this page:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/

Tom

[SOLVED] Re: How to install festival Spanish support?

[Mariano Draghi]

Tom Broadhurst wrote:
>  
>  Mariano,
>  
>  You have to do a little work, but check out this page:
>  http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ 
Thanks Tom!
It wasn't that difficult after all :)
I went to the download section of that page, and reading the 
VOICES.README I found out that I needed the festvox_ellpc11k.tar.gz tarball.

I decompressed the 'spanish' directory included in that tarball into 
/usr/share/festival/voices, and I was done. The dir structure of the 
tarball is quite different from the Fedora festival package, but it was 
easy to guess where to put the files.

Anyway, I don't know who's in charge of festival packaging, but maybe 
there should be a 'festival-extras' or 'festival-voices' RPM (at least 
in extras) with all the other stuff that comes with festival.

Regards,

-- 
Mariano

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 02:14:00PM -0300, Mariano Draghi wrote:
>  How can I install "festival" Spanish support in FC4?
>  It seems that the default RPM comes only with English. I couldn't find 
>  any additional festival RPMs either in core or in extras (other than the 
>  devel RPM, which I pressume won't install any additional language...) 
Unfortunately, the default spanish voice for Festival isn't licensed freely
enough to be included with Fedora -- apparently, the diphones are restricted
to non-commercial use. (Fedora itself isn't commercial, but eschews any such
restrictive licenses.)

If you're aware of any voices that *can* be included, please let me know and
I'll do what I can to get them in to the package (or at least included as
extras).

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