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When trying to use the festival speech synthesizer under Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), for instance in the following way:</p> <table class="muse-table" border="2" cellpadding="5">

<tbody> <tr> <td><table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b>$ echo &quot;Hello, mommy!&quot;</td> <td>festival &mdash;tts</b></td></tr></table></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

you will receive the following error:</p> <pre class="example"> Linux: can't open /dev/dsp </pre> This is because esd is grabbing the soundcard. To remedy, use esddsp to launch festival: <table class="muse-table" border="2" cellpadding="5">

<tbody> <tr> <td><table bgcolor="#000000" border="1"><tr><td border="0"><font color="#FFFF00"><b>$ echo &quot;Hello, mommy!&quot;</td> <td>esddsp festival &mdash;tts</b></td></tr></table></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

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