I think festival uses oss, a legacy sound server that only allows one audio stream at a time for most soundcards. Look for an argument to make it use alsa. Or alternatively fool festival and route the audio stream through alsa:
$ echo hello | aoss festival --tts You might want to install the "alsa-oss" package first. Alsa can mix different sound streams on a software level if your soundcard can't. -- Festival won't speak when other app is playing sounds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
