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>
