[Tim L]

I found that festival processes any punctuation that is not commas as an extra utterance. That includes (probably not limited to) ?!;:… .
So be sure to split your utterances on punctuation or remove it beforehand so things line up.

[Tim L]

I actually tried with the ubuntu install – it may work if some time is taken (should also install speech-tools then), but as those are all just binaries, to me it wasn’t clear how to reference the right folders in the setup script, so I abandoned that.
In the end I got it to work by copying the right files from the lab machines, and recompiling on my Ubuntu 18.04 server distribution using gcc-4.8. festvox didn’t compile – here I used the version downloaded from festvox.org, and copied missing files over from the ppls version. I used a python3.6 environment through anaconda, with the pre-compiled shared library from the ppls computers.
Last note: I did not take the symlinked directories in festival/lib, as they’re large. But I did need one directory from inside lib/voices-multisyn to run the voice locally, specifically the one containing the voice_localdir_multisyn-rpx script.

Bottom line:
I don’t recommend doing this to anyone, and I encourage Simon to remove the mention that you could perhaps install this locally, as it is definitely not possible to run through the entire exercise without taking some files from the PPLS computers, unless perhaps you are running a specific old distribution of linux/mac.
What !maybe! works, is following this tutorial (in fact I did for part of the exercise in the beginning), but again, not recommended, as the scripts used are different from the ones living on the PPLS computers.

[Tim L]

Hey, does everything work for you when going through the exercise?
I thought my manual installation worked, but fixing error after error finally I can’t get the Python wrappers to work. Also, there seems to be some mismatch in how the manual calls the multisyn-build commands vs. how their usage is defined in my installation.
I’m quite frustrated actually and consider dumping it and using the packaged method, but I don’t want to potentially lose my progress 🙂

[Tim L]

Hi, I’m still in need of a partner as my previous one dropped out.
Send me a quick email at s1998269@ed.ac.uk if you need one as well!
I’m not in SLP, so I can’t access IF studio.

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