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espeak-ng package

espeak-ng cannot load mbrola language files

Bug #1863981 reported by zapyon
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Bug Description

I tried using all of the mbrola files named by espeak-ng --voices=de :

Pty Language Age/Gender VoiceName File Other Languages
 5 de --/M German gmw/de
 6 de --/F german-mbrola-1 mb/mb-de1
 6 de --/M german-mbrola-2 mb/mb-de2
 6 de --/F german-mbrola-3 mb/mb-de3
 6 de --/M german-mbrola-4 mb/mb-de4
 6 de --/M german-mbrola-6 mb/mb-de6
 7 de --/F german-mbrola-5 mb/mb-de5
 7 de --/F german-mbrola-7 mb/mb-de7

espeak-ng -vmb-de1 "Test"

gives me:

mbrola: FATAL ERROR : cannot find file /usr/share/mbrola/de1/de1 !
mbrowrap error: mbrola closed stderr and did not exit
Error: Could not load the specified mbrola voice file.

It does speak, though, seemingly using a default voice.

/usr/share/mbrola does not exist.

The files actually seem to reside in

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-ng-data/voices/mb

I doubt that I can solve this via a simple symbolic link because seemingly the expected directory structure is different: all mbrola files are in the mb directory; there are no subdirectories like /de/de1 or similar.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: espeak-ng 1.49.2+dfsg-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Feb 20 05:08:20 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-03 (899 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: espeak-ng
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2020-01-18 (32 days ago)

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zapyon (zapyon) wrote :
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Valdisvi (valdis-vitolins) wrote :

To use MBROLA voices you have to install:

1. MBROLA synthesizer:

sudo apt-get install mbrola

2. MBROLA voices (i.e. voice database files) e.g.:

sudo apt-get install mbrola-de4

Note, that not all MBROLA voices, which are configured in eSpeak NG, can be installed as standard packages. More MBROLA voices can be downloaded from here:
https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices/

Files located in .../espeak-ng-data/voices/mb are actually mapping files between eSpeak NG phoneme names (phonemes) and phonemes used in MBROLA voice databases. As described here: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/docs/mbrola.md

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Pander (pander) wrote :

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