Dear Ubuntu6226, I have forcibly merged your two bugs since they appear to relate the same underlying issue with festival.
I presume from your later bug report 687822 that you have partly cured 665844. Is this true? I have checked the files list for the festival deb for armel and it appears to show that the files listed are in fact inside directory /usr/share/festival just as they are with i396 architecture. It should not be necessary to move them to your working directory. Are you having path issues so that festival is not finding the said files in /usr/share/festival? best regards, Peter Uploader for festival and speech-tools