This is actually a bug in the mbrola package. Download the test file alice.pho at https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA- voices/tree/master/data/us1/TEST and try to create a wav file using:
root@terminal:~/mbrola-test# mbrola /usr/share/mbrola/us1/us1 alice.pho test.wav *** Error in `mbrola': double free or corruption (out): 0x08f9c9e0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x67257)[0xb752a257] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6d577)[0xb7530577] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6dd31)[0xb7530d31] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(_IO_wsetb+0x69)[0xb7524fc9] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x6baf2)[0xb752eaf2] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2e91a)[0xb74f191a] /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x2e9cf)[0xb74f19cf] mbrola(free+0x60)[0x8048c0c] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-08050000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 1188309 /usr/bin/mbrola 08050000-08051000 rwxp 00007000 08:02 1188309 /usr/bin/mbrola 08f6e000-08fac000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7300000-b7321000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 b7321000-b7400000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 b7490000-b74ac000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4983464 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b74ac000-b74ad000 rwxp 0001b000 08:02 4983464 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 b74c2000-b74c3000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 b74c3000-b7672000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4983469 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so b7672000-b7673000 ---p 001af000 08:02 4983469 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so b7673000-b7675000 r-xp 001af000 08:02 4983469 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so b7675000-b7676000 rwxp 001b1000 08:02 4983469 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so b7676000-b7679000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 b7679000-b76cc000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4983398 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so b76cc000-b76cd000 r-xp 00052000 08:02 4983398 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so b76cd000-b76ce000 rwxp 00053000 08:02 4983398 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so b76e2000-b76e5000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 b76e5000-b76e7000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] b76e7000-b76e8000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] b76e8000-b770a000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 4983282 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so b770a000-b770b000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 b770b000-b770c000 r-xp 00022000 08:02 4983282 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so b770c000-b770d000 rwxp 00023000 08:02 4983282 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so bfc83000-bfca4000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] Aborted (core dumped) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1684280 Title: Running espeak with mbrola voices results in error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak/+bug/1684280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs