How to set festival voice in FC-2?

[Bob Goodwin]

Michael Weiner wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 15:31 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>  
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>>The parenthesis symbol must be escaped. Else, your shell will interpret 
>>it as a way to combine several commands at once:
>> 
>>festival --\(voica_kal_diphone\) -tts "Langalist.txt"
>>
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>I am running both versions 1.42 and 1.95 and neither take the --
>(voice_kal_diphone) as an acceptable parameter to pass from the command
>line. Am i missing something? I have all the latest on the machine
>running 1.95, so i am i bit confused by this syntax.
>
>Thanks in advance
>Michael Weiner
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>
            *You're confused?  Well that makes two of us. I've recently
            been afflicted with a problem that festival could help solve
            if only I could get it to read to me with an accent I could
            understand easily. It works for me if only I could figure
            out how to get it to speak American English.*

            *The only way I can see to run the application is from the
            command line and that suits me fine. Do I need to obtain a
            later version? Is there one with a GUI? Really all I want is
            to make it work. Obviously I am missing something here?*

            *Any help appreciated.*

            *Bob Goodwin   Zuni,  Virginia*