How to get Festival text to speech working?

[Rogue]

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Hi Rudolf,

Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> festival is limited to english pronounciation... that makes it quite
> useless for most people on this planet actually.
> 
> personally i found that http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ is already much
> more versatile.
> 
> regards,
> Rudolf Kastl
> 

I installed the espeak package and tried to run the following in a
terminal, and there was nothing! Am I missing something?

$ espeak "hello world"

thanks,
Rogue
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