Public bug reported: All MBROLA voices are too low. Even female voices such as us1 sound like deep bass males. padsp espeak -p 99 -v us1 "Hello world" padsp espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world" espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
After a fresh reinstall of espeak and mbrola: michael@doulos:~$ espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world" mbrola: Binary number format error mbrola: You are probably using a version of /usr/share/mbrola/voices/en1 incompatible mbrola: with your machine architecture. mbrola: Get the right one from the MBROLA project homepage : mbrola: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis mbrowrap error: mbrola exited with status 215 mbrola voice not found ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5) ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5) ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5) ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5) ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server socket jack server is not running or cannot be started ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: espeak 1.44.05-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: 8cfac2a5d6cf68ace3a811bdacd13c49 CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002 Date: Sat Jul 23 00:27:08 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: espeak UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (85 days ago) ** Affects: espeak (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814952 Title: MBROLA voices are too low To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak/+bug/814952/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs