Re: Esound & Festival

2000-12-31 Thread Paul Clark
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:48:36 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >Try running esd with the "-as " parameter. That'll free the audio >device after "" 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-se

Re: Esound & Festival

2000-12-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 09:11:37PM +, 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/

Esound & Festival

2000-12-30 Thread Paul Clark
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" an