I have been fighting this one for days; still no joy. (Altho I did have kmouth working, it wasn't as good as I wanted; things got messed up and now kmouth fails entirely. I cannot get kttsmgr working with the festival voices as I have on my old i386 platform.) That is what I want. I have read the docs in my 10.04 Ubuntu release; I have read and followed things on the web, including the UbuntuForum site. No joy.

I did find a GUI app called GeSpeaker until I can figure out how to get the ktts* suite (with the festival voices), but GeSpeaker doesn't sound as good as kttsmgr. A script with "festival --tts < $1" works for now, but i can't tune anything: speed, pich, languages... .

Has anybody else with the amd64 version of Ubuntu had any luck with this stuff? I would like to start with kmouth.