How to get Festival text to speech working?
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Jul 18 01:51:08 UTC 2007
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.
>
I tried it and the program works fine on my computer. I made a test.txt
file and it put sound out fine.
/dev/dsp shows crw-rw----+ 1 jim root
Are you running it via a GUI? If not, the permissions for /dev/dsp might
need to be set to the correct permissions.
Jim
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