Festival in 10.4 ubuntu

[Maurice McCarthy]

Steve,

Sorry I didn't notice that I'd replied to you personally instead of to
the list. And I'm even more sorry that I'm now stumped as to what the
answer might be. For sound output I have Altec Lansing speakers. The
volume has to be physically turned up on a knob but usually I use a
head set to avoid disturbing my wife. The headset has to be selected
in

System - Preferences - Sound - Output

and the volume set. I installed festival and ran a --tts command and
yet it played through the speakers. I presume this means that it
bypasses the pulse audio system.

It is a shot in the dark but have you tried running the command

$ sudo restorespeech ?

I'm trying to attach the script here. It comes with Vinux 3 but I
don't think it is part of the normal Ubuntu 10.04. Put a copy in
/usr/bin/ and chmod 0766 to use it. Parts of the script call programs
requiring root privileges to run. However, as you already have sound a
root then it may not work.

Good Luck
Maurice


On 14 August 2010 23:26, Stephen S. Disbrow <info at disbrows.us> wrote:
> Maurice,
>   I did use --tts. Also I forgot to note that if I run this as my user steve
> I do get an error on /dev/dsp which is something like no perms. I tried it
> as root, and didn't get this error, but still no sound. I also changed
> /dev/dsp to 666 and than no error as steve, but still no sound.
> Thanks,
>
> Steve D.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice McCarthy" <manselton at gmail.com>
> To: "Stephen S. Disbrow" <info at disbrows.us>
> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Festival in 10.4 ubuntu
>
>
> Steve
>
> The last argument should be --tts
> That is a double dash and not a single one.
>
> Best Wishes
> Maurice
>
> On 13 August 2010 15:33, Stephen S. Disbrow <info at disbrows.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I installed festival tts in ubuntu 10.4, but when I try to test it by
>> doing echo "\"hello world\"" | festival -tts I get no errors, but I don't
>> hear any sound what might I need to to do to make it work?.
>>
>> I also installed a bunch of recommended packages such as nas, and
>> audiooss,
>> but I removed them alThanks
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
>
>



-- 
Best Wishes
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