RE: festival on lenny

[Don Raikes <DON.RAIKES@oracle.com>]

Samuel,

When I run:

$ festival --tts hello.txt
I get the following output:

Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

I ran sudo adduser draikes audio

and it said draikes was already a member of group audio.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Thibault [mailto:samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:13 PM
> To: Don Raikes
> Subject: Re: festival on lenny
> 
> 
> Don Raikes, le Thu 16 Apr 2009 00:08:25 +0000, a écrit :
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > I ran modprobe snd_pcm_oss which seems to have succeeded.
> >
> > I then ran
> > $ festival --tts hello.txt
> >
> > I got an error saying that festival could not open /dev/dsp.
> 
> Didn't say why?  such as "permission denied"? You need to be in the
> audio group to be able to access audio, as shown by:
> 
> > I also ran:
> > $ ls -l /dev/dsp with results:
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2009-04-15 17:00 /dev/dsp
> 
> Samuel
>