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~/Desktop/fest$ sudo g++ test.c -l Festival -I/usr/include/festival -I/usr/lib/speech_tools/include -leststring -lestools -lestbase -o test.out
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\234’ in program
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:12:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\234’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:14:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\234’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
test.c:15:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
test.c: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
test.c:12:22: error: ‘hello’ was not declared in this scope
test.c:14:32: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘world’
test.c:15:14: error: expected primary-expression before ‘/’ token
test.c:15:15: error: ‘tmp’ was not declared in this scope
test.c:15:24: error: ‘class EST_Wave’ has no member named ‘wav’
test.c:15:34: error: ‘riff’ was not declared in this scope

Here’s what I did from a completely clean version of Ubuntu 11.04

$ sudo apt-get install festival-dev festvox-don build-essential g++

This will install a whole load of other packages too including festival

Then I editied the code you posted adding

#include<stdio.h>
#include<festival.h>

at the top where where there was just #include (I assume these were stripped out as html tags when you posted). I also eddited the ” marks as these had been replaced with fancy ones probably by wordpress.

I then set the path for the wave file to be in /tmp. And I removed this line

festival_eval_command(“(voice_ked_diphone)”);

As I didn’t have that voice and hence that variable.

I saved the file as test.c

then

sudo g++ test.c -l Festival -I/usr/include/festival  -I/usr/lib/speech_tools/include -leststring -lestools -lestbase -o test.out

I then ran test.out and it spoke! It also created a wav file in /tmp.

festival_initialize(load_init_files,heap_size);

// Say simple file
//festival_say_file(“Home/hello.txt”);

festival_eval_command(“(voice_ked_diphone)”);
// Say some text;
festival_say_text(“hello world”);

//Convert to a waveform
festival_text_to_wave(“hello world”,wave);
wave.save(“Home/../wave.wav”,”riff”);

// festival_say_file puts the system in async mode so we better
// wait for the spooler to reach the last waveform before exiting
// This isn’t necessary if only festival_say_text is being used (and
// your own wave playing stuff)
festival_wait_for_spooler();
// cout << "hello ";
return 0;
}

also this..