Tutorial 3B – Festival Config not working

[Seth A]

Under the subheading “Configure Festival in the VM” in Tutorial B of Module 3, there’s the command:

sudo rsync -avul --progress --files-from=:/Volumes/Network/courses/sp/manifest.txt s1234567@ppls-y2l-0101.ppls.ed.ac.uk:/ /

On the terminal in the VM, entering this with my student ID, entering the VM password, then entering my EASE password gives an “Authentication failed, Connection closed by 129.215.204.229 port 22” error. (Entering the wrong EASE password gives me “Permission denied, please try again.”)
I’m on the university VPN. What should I try here?
Festival works, but it’s the older version pre-installed on the VM.

[Simon]

Please try the machine scp1.ppls.ed.ac.uk and report back (instructions now updated).

[Seth A]

Unfortunately this came back with the following error:

Could not chdir to home directory /home/sXXXXXXX: No such file or directory
receiving file list …
40190 files to consider
rsync: send_files failed to open “/Volumes/Network/courses/ss/festival/festival_linux/est-0.6.linux-x86_64.tar.gz”: Permission denied (13)

[Seth A]

Now resolved, but using (SayText “phrase”) just gives a blip of sound, when before it could play a full sentence. Other audio from the VM works normally.

[Simon]

Try changing the method that Festival uses to play audio:

festival> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)                      
festival> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "play -t raw -r 16000 -b 16 -c 1 -e signed-integer $FILE")
festival> (SayText "hello world")

which tells Festival to save the audio to a file, then use play (i.e., sox) to play that file. So, if playing audio on the command line works, this should work.

[Nicole M]

I had the same problem that (SayText “phrase”) just gives a blip of sound and the commands

festival> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)                                            
festival> (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "play -t raw -r 16000 -b 16 -c 1 -e signed-integer $FILE")

fixed this problem, thanks!

However, I have to enter those commands every time I start festival for SayText to work. Should it be like this or is there maybe another workaround?

[Simon]

For the main part of the assignment, you’ll be loading a configuration file called config.scm every time you start Festival. This loads a better-sounding voice.

You can add those commands to the end of config.scm and they will be run as you start Festival.

Until then, you could create a file called startup.scm, put those two commands in that file, then start Festival like this:

$ festival startup.scm

[Iona D]

EDIT: all sorted now, reinstalled atlab onto the VM and audio worked

these methods still aren’t making SayText return audio, I just get the #<utterance number> is there anything else I can do?

[Iona D]

hi, another query,

when I run
sudo rsync -avul –progress –files-from=:/Volumes/Network/courses/sp/manifest.txt s1234567@ppls-y2l-0101.ppls.ed.ac.uk:/ /
with my student number I’m prompted to put in he atlab password but then when I do I get
ssh: connect to host scp1.ppls.ed.ac.uk port 22: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2]
returned. I’m definitely using the right atlab password but it ask me to input my EASE one

[Iona D]

^^ fixed this now. got it sorted by uninstalling and reinstalling the VPN because the VM just didn’t seem to be able to connect with it

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