On Wednesday 18 July 2007 03:20, 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. Well I tried it again today on Fedora 7, and actually got some speech out of it. The last time I tried it must have been about 3 years ago on FC1, or FC2, and couldn't get it to work, but I was very new to computers, and Linux. The speech isn't quite up to Star Trek standards, but your ears get tuned in after a while. That's with an Audigy2 soundblaster card on the machine, and the alsa-oss package installed. I just started it on the CLI, and followed the instructions in the manual to get it saying something. It was interesting to say the least, using tts to read out my ~/.xawtv file. Lots of "left square bracket", "equals", "right square bracket", and so on. At least when you've got something working, there is some incentive to learn more about it. Nigel.
