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Old 11-23-2009, 09:11 AM   #1
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Festival not running


debian:/home/sunil# echo hello | festival
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : hello
debian:/home/sunil#
 
Old 11-24-2009, 10:21 AM   #2
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It looks like that may be a small syntax problem - what you would want to run is the following:
echo "Hello" | festival --tts

(TTS for "text to speech," of course). Hope this all works out.
 
Old 11-24-2009, 06:41 PM   #3
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debian:/home/sunil# echo "Hello" | festival --tts
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
debian:/home/sunil#


Still not working. My sound card is ok. I am hearing music from my system.
 
Old 11-24-2009, 07:19 PM   #4
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Do you have any other applications open that might be using audio? If so, try closing them. You might be using software mixing, which means that sound can't be shared by more than one application. I get the same message when I try to use festival while a media player (e.g. Totem) is playing a sound/video file.

(I personally have no desire to switch back to h/w mixing, though. If I re-enable it, it causes an approx. 1 second delay between video/audio on everything.)

Last edited by MrCode; 11-24-2009 at 07:21 PM.
 
Old 11-25-2009, 11:17 AM   #5
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It is the only application running

How to disable mixing?
 
  


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