Ubuntu
festival package

  1. Bug #209900
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 209900

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puccha (yuri-schaeffer) wrote : Re: [Bug 209900] Re: Festival is not compatible with pulseaudio (won't speak when other app is playing sound)

Daniel Ellis wrote:
> ;;;; 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?

The Debian package maintainer for Festival is Kartik Mistry
(http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/festival.html). I think it is best to
contact him and ask for the configuration change (I cc'd him/her). Next
time Canonical forks Debian the changes are copied. I'm not sure however
whether Debian also uses Pulseaudio.

@Kartik: We are talking about configuring Festival to use Pulse by
default in Ubuntu/Debian. Alsa might be a nice compromise in case Debian
doesn't do Pulse. see: (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209900).

//puccha