mbrola-de1 mbrola-it2 and many other voices not working with espeak

[dr-ni]

Versions:

uname -a
Linux go2 5.15.14-surface #1 SMP Sat Jan 15 02:27:14 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

apt list <package>
espeak: 1.48.15+dfsg-2build1 amd64
mbrola: 3.3+dfsg-4 amd64
mbrola-de1: 2.050+repack2-4 all
mbrola-de6: 0.0.20021125+repack2-5 all
mbrola-it2: 0.1+repack2-2 all

For voice mbrola-de6 everything is working fine:

espeak -v mb-de6 "Hallo" --stdout | aplay

however, de1 and it2 are not working:

espeak -v mb-de6 "Hallo" --stdout | aplay
Failed to read voice 'mb-de1'

espeak -v mb-it2 "uno" --stdout | aplay
Failed to read voice 'mb-it2'

any advice?

[valdisvi]

Install needed language files either with package manager or download them directly from MBROLA-voices project.

[dr-ni]

all packages are installed with package manager
even if I copy them, directly from https://github.com/numediart/MBROLA-voices/

sudo cp de1 /usr/share/mbrola/de1/de1

same issues

[valdisvi]

As you are using old version of espeak, check that it has configuration files for these voices. In folder espeak-data or espeak-ng-data there should be files like this.

[dr-ni]

this is my voices folder:

uwe@go2:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-data/voices
insgesamt 60
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  asia
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   38 Feb 22  2021  de
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   38 Feb 22  2021  default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  110 Feb 22  2021  en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  264 Feb 22  2021  en-us
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  181 Feb 22  2021  es-la
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  europe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   82 Feb 22  2021  fr
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  mb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  other
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  106 Feb 22  2021  pt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07  test
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07 '!v

there is also nothing for de6 but working?

[dr-ni]

uwe@go2:~$ ls -la /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/espeak-data/voices/mb
insgesamt 224
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 17 15:07 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   88 Feb 22  2021 mb-af1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Feb 22  2021 mb-af1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  115 Feb 22  2021 mb-br1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  115 Feb 22  2021 mb-br3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  119 Feb 22  2021 mb-br4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  126 Feb 22  2021 mb-cr1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   82 Feb 22  2021 mb-cz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Feb 22  2021 mb-de2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   99 Feb 22  2021 mb-de3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   85 Feb 22  2021 mb-de4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   79 Feb 22  2021 mb-de4-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  192 Feb 22  2021 mb-de5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   90 Feb 22  2021 mb-de5-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78 Feb 22  2021 mb-de6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Feb 22  2021 mb-de6-grc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  106 Feb 22  2021 mb-de7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   95 Feb 22  2021 mb-ee1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  113 Feb 22  2021 mb-en1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   97 Feb 22  2021 mb-es1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   91 Feb 22  2021 mb-es2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  150 Feb 22  2021 mb-fr1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  103 Feb 22  2021 mb-fr1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  111 Feb 22  2021 mb-fr4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  106 Feb 22  2021 mb-fr4-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   94 Feb 22  2021 mb-gr2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   88 Feb 22  2021 mb-gr2-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  102 Feb 22  2021 mb-hu1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   97 Feb 22  2021 mb-hu1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   86 Feb 22  2021 mb-ic1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  101 Feb 22  2021 mb-id1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  753 Feb 22  2021 mb-ir1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  768 Feb 22  2021 mb-ir2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  142 Feb 22  2021 mb-it3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  145 Feb 22  2021 mb-it4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   83 Feb 22  2021 mb-la1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  120 Feb 22  2021 mb-mx1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  120 Feb 22  2021 mb-mx2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   96 Feb 22  2021 mb-nl2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   91 Feb 22  2021 mb-nl2-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   99 Feb 22  2021 mb-pl1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   82 Feb 22  2021 mb-pl1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  114 Feb 22  2021 mb-pt1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   87 Feb 22  2021 mb-ro1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   81 Feb 22  2021 mb-ro1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   98 Feb 22  2021 mb-sw1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   93 Feb 22  2021 mb-sw1-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  102 Feb 22  2021 mb-sw2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   99 Feb 22  2021 mb-sw2-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   85 Feb 22  2021 mb-tr1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  114 Feb 22  2021 mb-tr2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  170 Feb 22  2021 mb-us1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  178 Feb 22  2021 mb-us2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  180 Feb 22  2021 mb-us3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  144 Feb 22  2021 mb-vz1

do I have to add it to this folder?

[valdisvi]

Sorry, I forget to mention that it should be voices/mb subfolder of espeak-ng-data, but you figured it out yourself. As you can see, there is no configuration files for mb-de1 and mb-it2. I don't remember, if these files needed compilation or if they are interpreted. If they are interpreted, you may try to add missing files manually from espeak-ng project.

[valdisvi]

If it doesn't work, I recommend to set up espeak-ng 1.50 from PPA package.

[dr-ni]

OK perfect!
Thank you very much for your help.
Everything is working fine if I'm adding the files here