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. > Don't use festival. Use Orca. It is the new version of festival. It should be installed by default on your system. system->personal->assitive technology preferences Enable screen reader. Logout and login. -- Joseph Loo jloo@xxxxxxx