deloptes composed on 2016-05-23 22:44 (UTC+0200): > Felix Miata wrote: >> /usr/share/festival/voices/ > $ ls -al /usr/share/festival/voices/english/kal_diphone/ > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 festvox > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 2015 group Same thing as I posted that you didn't quote, except in more detail. Dates are much newer here, likely because this is Stretch. > $ dpkg -l | grep festi > ii festival 1:2.1~release-8 > amd64 General multi-lingual speech synthesis system > ii festvox-kallpc16k 1.4.0-5 > all American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate Same as were already installed here except for newer versions here. ii festival 1:2.4~release-2+b2 amd64 General multi-lingual speech synthesis system ii festlex-cmu 1.4.0-8 all CMU dictionary for Festival ii festlex-poslex 1.4.0-6 all Part of speech lexicons and ngram from English ii festvox-kallpc16k 1.4.0-6 all American English male speaker for festival, 16khz sample rate > Anyway at least I can see the default kal_diphone - I think you should > install 1-2 of those festival voices > I don't recall anymore what was the trick to make mbrola work I seriously doubt packages in standard repos depend on people fishing for archives to download and install manually in order for them to function at all. Have you read the bug? http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2657 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/