Festival config file

[Ross C]

On the VM remote desktop,
/Volumes/Network/courses/sp

Should there be something inside that folder? Because when I checked, there wasn’t.

[Simon]

Did you copy the files using rsync ?

[Ross C]

I hadn’t, sorry, I was confused by having two sets of instructions.

I’ve now had a go at rsync and got this error (attached screenshot) – saying things like “connection refused” “rsync error”

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[Simon]

Are you connected to the VPN (on the host computer, i.e., your personal computer)?

[Ross C]

I’d missed that step, sorry again – it worked fine once I was using the VPN.

[Ross C]

Having opened Festival with the config file, the voice doesn’t sound right.

It seems to have changed voice and could well be a Scottish male, but it’s as though I only hear a few random fragments of any utterance I play. It sounds almost as brief as a click, but I can tell it’s speech. I say random because on repeat attempts, it changes. Sometimes it’s silent.

Earlier when I’d tried the basic voice, I could hear the complete utterance as expected. However, I’ve just tried this:
(quit)
festival
(SayText “hello world”)
which I guess would use the original voice again, but it sounds the same as I described in 2nd paragraph above.

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[Simon]

Just to check – you posted this under “Remote Desktop” but you are actually using the Virtual Machine?

To solve the sound issue, try this and report back.

[Ross C]

(I am using the Virtual Machine, not the Remote Desktop. My mistake.)

I followed the steps from the thread linked above, i.e. added the following two lines to the bottom of config.scm:
(Parameter.set ‘Audio_Method ‘Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set ‘Audio_Command “play -t raw -r 16000 -b 16 -c 1 -e signed-integer $FILE”)

and the problem is fixed. Thanks!

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