text-to-speech doesn't work

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Sat Oct 18 21:02:35 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 22:30 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:10 AM, kwhiskerz <kwhiskerz at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> 
> because they use OSS ... prepend padsp to the commands and they should work.
> 

festival can be made to work with alsa and/or PA by adding 

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd)


to /etc/festival/siteinit.scm. I've filed a bug to get this into the
package before F10.




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