Comment 3 for bug 209900

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Daniel Ellis (danellisuk) wrote : Re: Festival won't speak when other app is playing sounds

Although Puccha's comment about using aoss will work. My understanding is that it will route audio as follows:-

  festival > oss > alsa > pulseaudio

A more efficient method of routing festival is to use padsp which passes oss directly to pulseaudio as follows:-

  festival > oss > pulseaudio

The command would be:

$ echo "Hello" | padsp festival --tts

(aoss is not installed by default in Ubuntu 9.10, whereas padsp is)