Subject: bug#52321: closed (Re: festival can't do text-to-speech (Linux: can't open /dev/dsp))

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 05:06:01 +0000

Your bug report

#52321: festival can't do text-to-speech (Linux: can't open /dev/dsp)

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: festival can't do text-to-speech (Linux: can't open /dev/dsp)
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 06:04:53 +0100
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Pushed as 13f769c165c06b97472f61902d491c8910e86f8b.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Subject: festival can't do text-to-speech (Linux: can't open /dev/dsp)
From: Luis Felipe <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:20:45 +0000
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. guix shell festival
2. echo Hello speech | festival --tts

EXPECTED RESULT

You can hear festival utters "Hello speech".

UNEXPECTED RESULT

There is no speech, and the following error is printed:

  Linux: can't open /dev/dsp

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Using flite, a synthesizer based on festival, just works. Also, following the steps in Debian produce the expected result.

SYSTEM INFORMATION

OS: Guix System f52719dfad7b7d3beb2b1211b6846196f3590823 x86_64 

Kernel: 5.13.15-gnu1 

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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/