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Subject:    FESTIVAL 1.4.2B FT: Rate and Pitch of Speech
From:       Alan W Black <awb () cs ! cmu ! edu>
Date:       2001-08-20 10:16:05
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 Patel Ritesh _00307912_ writes on 20 August 2001:
 > message from Patel Ritesh _00307912_ <ritesh@ee.iitb.ac.in> to festival-talk
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 > respected all.
 > 	I installed new festival 1.4.2 on 7.0 linux. I could not get
 > "festlex_NAME.tar.gz" and "festvox_NAME.tar.gz" from net. but I installed
 > successfully with all the distributions given in festvox.org/festival with
 > latest virson of festvox.

"NAME" in festlex_NAME.tar.gz is intended as a variable name as there
are a number of possible lexicons/voices available.  E.g for an
American English voice you will actually need
    festlex_POSLEX.tar.gz
    festlex_CMU.tar.gz
    festvox_kallpc16k.tar.gz

 > 	I am having same problem that is faced by "adam" that voice is
 > completely unusual. rate is too fast,pitch has some problem and may be
 > other problems that I can not find.
 > 	Even when duration is lowered by using function
 > 	(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 2.5) the voice is not been able
 > to be recognised. please help.

I believe this problem is the audio dirvers that you have, and
that festival is not talking to you audio driver correctly.  A bug
near there was fixed in 1.4.2 where it would play mono files as
stere effectively doubling the sample rate to give chimpmunk
speech.

This think to check here is does your audio work with any other
play program?  e.g play (which is part of the sox distribution) or
aplay which is part of the ALSA sound drivers.  In your
festival/lib/siteinit.scm (create this file if you don't
have it already) add the following.

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "play $FILE")

this should make festival use "play" to play the waveforms.

Let me know if this doesn't work.

Alan

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 > thanks in advance
 > your sincerely,
 > ritesh patel
 > 
 > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Adam Bellinson wrote:
 > 
 > > message from Adam Bellinson <ABellinson@justtalk.com> to festival-talk
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 > > Hi guys, I'm a festival newbie.
 > >
 > > After hunting around for all the dependencies of the festival RPM, I finally
 > > got festival running on my redhat 7.1 machine. I've tried several methods of
 > > playback including
 > >
 > > 	$ festival
 > > 	festival> (SayText "this is a test")
 > >
 > > as well as
 > >
 > > 	$ echo "this is a test" | festival --tts
 > >
 > > I'm betting they're functionally equivilent since they both have the same
 > > result: the voice is very fast, and has a very high pitch. Rummaging the
 > > mailing lists, I discovered that
 > >
 > > 	festival> (Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 2.5)
 > >
 > > or so slows down the voice, but doesn't bring down the pitch. I've of
 > > festival producing nice sounding british voices and such, and I can't seem
 > > to get any of that to work nicely. Also, if I were to find the right
 > > commands to slow/lower the voice, how do I get it to set these vars globally
 > > so I don't have to set them by hand all the time?
 > >
 > > Thanks a lot for your help, guys! :)
 > >
 > > - Adam Bellinson
 > >
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