running mbrola

[<benny netspace net au>]

Hi all.

Today I thought I'd try my hand at installing Mbrola, as I have need
of multi-lingual speech. I installed RPMs of the Mbrola package plus
the en1 voice. The problem came to try out the test file
mbrola.pho. It seemed to produce the .au file without errors, but I
just get squealing and wild-winter-night type sounds when I try and
send it to /dev/audio. I can usually cat .au files to /dev/audio and
hear them correctly. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Ben