Cherrot wrote: > message from Cherrot <carrot0...@gmail.com> to festival-talk > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Recently I have successfully build the Festival 2.1, but it just can't > make a sound! > > festival> (SayText "Hello World") > Linux: can't open /dev/dsp > #<Utterance 0xb6908248> > > Check the ownership on /dev/dsp, and if appropriate make sure your user is in the right group to have write access to it.
> How could I solve this problem? Can't festival 2.1 use pulseAudio & ALSA > as its audio output device? > Try using 'padsp festival' instead of just 'festival' when running it, because you may need to use that wrapper for /dev/dsp to exist in that context. / Also, see if you have got the package for the alsa pulseaudio plugin installed. It possibly comes in the 'pulseaudio-alsa' package. I use Fedora, rather than Ubuntu so I can't be certain. Hope that helps. Good luck. Trying to get festival working when your distribution doesn't natively use the right sound server is a major pain in the behind. I've got page after page of notes on it having had to find out the hard way :-/ / I guess if there were enough interest I could clean the notes up into a HOWTO to save other people this kind of pain? K. -- Kev "Kyrian" Green. WWW: http://kyrian.ore.org/ Linux Security + Hosting + Admin/LAMP Coder @ http://www.orenet.co.uk/ When I spit in the eye of the gods, then I will smile _______________________________________________ Festlang-talk mailing list Festlang-talk@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/festlang-talk
