text-to-speech doesn't work

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Oct 18 18:57:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:10:05PM -0600, kwhiskerz wrote:
> I am using Fedora release 9.92 (Rawhide). For some time now, likely late in Fedora 8, or during Fedora 9, text-to-speech ceased to work. This applies to both festival and espeak.
> festival --tts file.txt
> espeak -f file.txt --punct=""
> Neither gives any audible output. The programs just run indefinitely and nothing happens.

This probably falls under "fun with pulseaudio". See
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467531>

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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