text-to-speech doesn't work

[drago01]

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.