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
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Then tell those guy who make Festival to switch to ALSA instead.
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Festival won't speak when other app is playing sounds
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I think festival uses oss, a legacy sound server that only allows one
audio stream at a time for most soundcards. Look for an argument to make
it use alsa. Or alternatively fool festival and route the audio stream
through alsa:
$ echo hello | aoss festival --tts
You might want to install the "als
