[mh] Festival users (v1.95 -> v2)?

I’m looking to retire my ancient Linux 2.6 VM, which I only keep around for festival 1.95 and the jmk multisyn voice. Try as I might over the past few weeks, I’ve been unable to get multisyn working on festival 2.5, I get a unbounded error below. I’ve got the HTS jmk voice working, but it’s a little flat compared to the 20 year old multisyn voice that has the ‘misterhouse personality’. Family consensus is that the old voice (multisyn cstr_us_jmk_arctic_multisyn)  is better than the new one (HTS cmu_us_jmk_cg)

If anyone has a working multisyn setup on a more modern version of linux (currently run a near end-of-life Ubuntu 18.04) would appreciate any pointers or advice!
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/usr/share/festival# festival

Festival Speech Synthesis System 2.5.0:release December 2017
Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh, 1996-2010. All rights reserved.

clunits: Copyright (C) University of Edinburgh and CMU 1997-2010
clustergen_engine: Copyright (C) Carnegie Mellon University 2005-2017
hts_engine: 
The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Engine "hts_engine API"
hts_engine API version 1.07 (http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) The HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Engine "hts_engine API"
Version 1.07 (http://hts-engine.sourceforge.net/)
Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Nagoya Institute of Technology
              2001-2008 Tokyo Institute of Technology
All rights reserved.

All rights reserved.
For details type `(festival_warranty)'
festival> (voice_cstr_us_jmk_arctic_multisyn)
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : voice_jmk_multisyn_configure_pre
festival> 



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