How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Joseph Loo]

Joe Desbonnet wrote:
> I'm trying to evaluate Festival text-to-speech on Fedora 7, but I get
> this error:
> 
> festival --tts < test.txt
> Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
> 
> Seems many people have this problem, but I can't see any fixes. As always
> System -> Help is useless.
> 
> Obviously if it was shipped it must work somehow. Any suggestions?
> 
> Joe.
> 
Don't use festival. Use Orca. It is the new version of festival. It should be
installed by default on your system.
system->personal->assitive technology preferences
Enable screen reader.

Logout and login.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org