A thread on ubuntu forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751169 shows how to make festival work with pulseaudio directly. This will avoid having to use a wrapper such as padsp.
On my machine, I created the file /etc/festival.scm and entered the following four lines:- ;;;; Use pulseaudio to output sound (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "paplay -n festival $FILE") (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) (Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd) Festival now works as expected and the sound stream is identified as festival in Sound Preferences on the Application tab. Now that Ubuntu uses pulseaudio as default, how can we go about including this default configuration file? -- Festival is not compatible with pulseaudio (won't speak when other app is playing sound) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
