How to set festival voice in FC-2?

[Mike Klinke]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:00, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>             *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.*


I played around a little bit with this and wound up editing:

12:26:59 # /usr/share/festival/languages.scm 

New line: 
 (defvar language_default language_american_english)
 
Old line:
 (defvar language_default language_british_english)

Regards, Mike Klinke