I finally gave up on Festival. After much searching on the net, I found mention of flite (Festival Lite). I installed it and it has the US female HTS voice included. So, problem solved. Now for my Linux rant. I have used Linux for several projects over the years. I am no guru, but I am certainly no ...

Seems the problem was a weird bug in the version of Teraterm I was using. I installed the latest version from Sourceforge and it work now. I've used various versions of Teraterm for many years and this is the first time I had seen this problem.

Using a USB to TTL serial adapter (PL2303 chip), I connected to the pins on the GPIO header. Using Teraterm on Windows 7, I get the bootup text just fine. When I go to login, or even afterwards, anything I type shows up on screen two characters behind. Even though the screen doesn't display what I t...

I have a newly installed Raspian that has all the latest updates/upgrades. I just installed Festival TTS with apt-get. This works fine, but only has one voice, which is rather lousy. I see that the mbrola-us1 voice is available in the repository (female voice). When I go to install it with apt-get, ...