How To Install MBROLA Voices For Use With Festival On Ubuntu

Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Chris

Festival is a great text-to-speech engine. MBROLA also contains some impressive voice files that have notably higher quality than Festival’s default voices. Both of these systems are packaged in Ubuntu, and even though Festival can use MBROLA’s voice files, as of Ubuntu 10.04, there doesn’t seem to be a package to easily allows you to [...]

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Ubuntu Flash Drive Encryption Script

Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Chris

I was researching methods to encrypt USB flash drives, to protect personal data in the event they’re lost or stolen, and I found a few good write-ups on the subject using tools available in Ubuntu. Although the current distribution of Gnome includes pretty good support for auto-detecting and prompting for the password for encrypted drives, [...]

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