Re: Esound & Festival
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +0000, Paul Clark wrote:
> I have tried using Festival to read a text document and it appears
> that the ESD Sound Daemon is sometimes processing two lots of speech
> at once making it incomprehensible.
>
> I am not familiar with ESD. The man page and /usr/share/docs are
> non-existant.
>
> I use the command "festival --tts text.txt" and this has worked on Red
> Hat previously when I compiled Festival from source.
>
> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Try running esd with the "-as <secs>" parameter. That'll free the audio
device after "<secs>" seconds which should allow festival to play
directly without esd mucking it up. You can do that in your
~/.xsession. Alternatively, if you run gnome-session, just turn off
"sound server" in the control panel.
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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