I tried installing Festival from Synaptic to use it with Orca, but it did not show up on Orca's speech synthesizer list.
I installed the following packages:
To all appearances, you should have the applications needed for festival to work with orca. Have you gone into Orca Preferences, Speech tab and changed the "Speech System" to 'GNOME Speech Services'? After that, you can change the "Speech synthesizer" to Festival.
I also ran into this problem but fixed it. For context, I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
Warning: un-commenting the line as I propose will make your orca dependent on festival_server running. You have been warned.
In /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf I un-commented (removed the hashtag at the beginning of the line)
AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf"
Then in one terminal I ran
festival_server
and finally in a separate terminal I ran
orca
You'd probably want to start festival_server at startup by messing with your ~/.xsession because with that AddModule line un-commented orca will not start without festival_server running.
Same as you I have
I installed the latter two specifically because of this post. Unsure if they helped.
To discover what was going wrong I first tried man speech-dispatcher and that directed me to info speech-dispatcher and from there I learned about the config file.
In /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf I un-commented the line
AddModule "festival" "sd_festival" "festival.conf"
Next I tried both orca and spd-say hello and ran into an error.
After further reading in /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/festival.conf I saw that you have to run festival_server in order for spd-say or orca to work. That finally made things work and I was able to select from my installed festival voices in the orca settings menu, and orca spoke with festival when I applied those changes.
try my script ;)
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright Paolo Rotolo <paolorotolo@ubuntu-it.org>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
sudo apt-get install festival
sudo apt-get install festvox-italp16k
sudo apt-get install festvox-itapc16k
echo "(set! main-path "/usr/share/festival")
(set! load-path (cons main-path load-path))(set! load-path (cons main-path load-path))" >> .festivalvarsr
echo "(set! main-path "/usr/share/festival")(set! libdir main-path)(set! lexdir (path-append libdir "dicts"))(set! voice_default 'voice_lp_diphone)" >> .festivalrc
sudo apt-get install gnome-speech-swift
espeak -v it -s 150 "Complimenti. Avete installato Festival sul vostro pc. La voce che sentite non è di festival. Per attivarlo andate nelle preferenze di orca e alla voce, sistema di sintesi vocale, selezionate Servizi sintesi vocale di GNOME. Alla voce, Sintetizzatore di sintesi vocale, selezionate Festival GNOME Speech Driver. Alla voce impostazioni della voce, selezionate Predefinita. Infìne, alla voce, persona, selezionate pc_diphone, se volete la voce maschile, oppure lp_diphone, se volete la voce femminile.
Orca verrà avviato automaticamente."
orca
