On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:21:50 -0400, Guy Schlosser wrote: > Hey all, just wanted to write and see if I can get some help. I am > running Fedora Core 6, test 3 on a P-4 2.8 GHZ HT processor with an > AC'97 sound chip. I can get sound in X Windows, using Gnome and > Orca, but when I try to issue commands like: > $festival > SayText "Hello" > I get no sound out of my speaker. I've checked my amixer settings, > and everything seems to be turned on and up to max. Is there a > service or kernel module I need to load? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, I had a similar problem with flite (the light version of festival, which I recommend). It was giving me an error, that it couldn't open /dev/dsp. Which means flite (so possibly festival too) was programmed to use the old OSS drivers. Check with /sbin/lsmod that you have snd_pcm_oss loaded. Also, if you you get any error message when running festival, post it here, we may be able to tell more.
