Felix Miata wrote:
/usr/share/festival/voices/
$ ls -al /usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 festvox
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 group
$ dpkg -l | grep festi
ii festival 1:2.1~release-8
amd64 General multi-lingual speech synthesis system
ii festvox-kallpc16k 1.4.0-5
all American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate
But I don't hear anything and I have old left over MBROLA from 2009 with
german
ls -al /usr/local/MBROLA/
total 1720
drwxr-sr-x 8 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 .
drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 ..
drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 data
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 de1
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 de2
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 de3
drwxr-sr-x 3 root staff 4096 Dec 13 2009 de5
Anyway at least I can see the default kal_diphone - I think you should
install 1-2 of those festival voices
I don't recall anymore what was the trick to make mbrola work