MBROLA voices are too low

[mdmcginn]

All MBROLA voices are too low. Even female voices such as us1 sound like deep bass males.
padsp espeak -p 99 -v us1 "Hello world"
padsp espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"

After a fresh reinstall of espeak and mbrola:

michael@doulos:~$ espeak -p 99 -v mb-en1 "Hello world"
mbrola: Binary number format error
mbrola: You are probably using a version of /usr/share/mbrola/voices/en1 incompatible
mbrola: with your machine architecture.
mbrola: Get the right one from the MBROLA project homepage :
mbrola: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis
mbrowrap error: mbrola exited with status 215
mbrola voice not found
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib audio/pcm_bluetooth.c:1613:(audioservice_expect) BT_GET_CAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:957:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server socket
jack server is not running or cannot be started

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: espeak 1.44.05-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic-pae 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 8cfac2a5d6cf68ace3a811bdacd13c49
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca792bf437989cb597002
Date: Sat Jul 23 00:27:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: espeak
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (85 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonathan Duddington (jonsd)]

This problem does not occur with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric.

The problem with earlier versions may be because eSpeak is looking for the mbrola voice files in the wrong location. Try moving or copying the voice file /usr/share/mbrola/us1/us1 to /usr/share/mbrola/voices/us1

Alternatively, use eSpeak version 1.45.04 or later, from the Ubuntu Oneiric repository, or from http://espeak.sourceforge.net