--- On Thu, 8/12/10, Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Bug#592442: festival: fails to speak (ESD: error writing - Bad > file descriptor) > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Thursday, August 12, 2010, 1:21 AM > Dear fab, > > Thanks for the report. > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 10:44:46PM -0700, fab wrote: > > After the latest update (2010-08-09) this error > message appears in terminal: ESD: error writing - Bad file > descriptor > > I don't have pulse audio. > > > > for example: > > bash-4.1$ echo "Hello" | festival --tts > > ESD: error writing - Bad file descriptor > > Could you please try creating a .festivalrc with these > contents: > > (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 > -r $SR $FILE") > (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) > > If that works for you, I'll update festival to use Alsa by > default. > > Thanks! > > Kumar > -- > lp1 on fire > -- One of the more > obfuscated kernel messages > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

