Festival SayText does nothing (almost)

[sdlyr8]

Hey I just installed Festival and festvox-don for a project I'm working on. I open Festival and try

(SayText "Hello")

And I hear nothing (yes, the speakers are on and volume is up). But I do get the message

#<Utterance 0xb7129c18>

which from what I have looked at is normal and nothing to worry about. But the fact is I'm still not getting any sound. I have also tried

echo "Hello" | festival --tts

and again I get nothing..

Anyone know what is wrong here and how to fix it?

[terry f]

I am having some problems as well I get Utterance 0x7f54afce9d30 as an error.

[sdlyr8]

Yeah well getting the message Utterance 0x7f54afce9d30 isn't really an error (from what I read up).

The (hex) number in the return value may be different for your installation. That is the print form for utterances. Their internal structure can be very large so only a token form is printed.

But it doesn't give any errors as to why no sound is coming out...

[spacesearcher]

I was having similar problems I found this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=171182&page=2
and on that post there was this magical command that fixed it:

printf ";use ALSA\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)\n(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command \"aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r \$SR \$FILE\")\n" > .festivalrc

after i did that it worked.

[alienexplorers]

To get festival to read a text file just run this in terminal:

festival --tts "hello.txt"

Just make sure you have something in the text file to read!