/"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."/ It works! Thank you indeed! And I have found another solution on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Festival
/Switch to ALSA output by adding these lines to the end of your .festivalrc file, or to /usr/share/festival/festival.scm : / /(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE") / It also works for me. /I guess if there were enough interest I could clean the notes up into a HOWTO to save other people this kind of pain?/ Of course there are. And I'm looking forward it :-) > Cherrot wrote: >> message from Cherrot <[email protected]> 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. >
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