[misterhouse-users] RH 9.0 and Festival

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Hello,
   I'm finally getting back to Linux for my MH installation, and I'm 
excited about it. I want to use the better voices for the festival 
engine, but I simply need to get festival working first.

When I issue the command: "read pollen forecast", (with debug=voice) I see:

normal: Today's pollen count is 0.3. The predominant pollen is Ragweed
Voice_Text volume=80, mh_volume=
input  phrase is '<SPEAKER NAME='female2'> Todays pollen count is 0.3. 
The predominant pollen is Ragweed </SPEAKER>'
output phrase is '<SPEAKER NAME='female2'> Todays pollen count is 0.3. 
The predominant pollen is Ragweed </SPEAKER>'
Voice_text TTS: /usr/bin/festival --tts 
/home/mh/data/mh_temp.festival.370.sable
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_rab_diphone

To even get it this far, I discovered that I needed to have a 
siteinit.scm file. I simply added the server_access_list parm to the 
file, and kept going, pasting in things that I found in the yahoo list 
archives, etc.
Anyways, I ended up with this:

 (set! server_access_list '("localhost\\.localdomain" "typhoon" 
"typhoon\\.switzerny\\.org" "localhost" "house\\.switzerny\\.org"))
  (set! voice_default 'voice_ked_diphone)
  (set! voice_male1   'voice_kal_diphone)
  (set! voice_male2   'voice_ked_diphone)
  (set! voice_female  'voice_kal_diphone)
 (cd server_home)
(voice_ked_diphone)
(set! default_access_strategy 'direct)
(set! voice_default 'voice_ked_diphone)
(set! voice_male1 'voice_kal_diphone)
(set! voice_male2 'voice_ked_diphone)
(set! voice_female 'voice_kal_diphone)

I'm starting the festival engine in a BG process, and it's listening on 
1314. I sometimes see MH say "connecting to festival on localhost:1314" 
or something similar, and other times it seem to want to invoke the 
program itself. I'm currently running MH as ROOT, so there should be no 
permissions issues.

Ideas?

Thanks!
Steve