Hi, my system is a recent Gentoo Linux with linux kernel 3.2.11 (vanilla, downloaded directly from Linus Torvalds desktop...so to say :). The alsa drivers are taken from the kernel itself, anything alsa else is taken from the portage package system. Additionally I installed jack-audio-connection-kit (1.9.8) and it runs in realtime mode (configured via qjackctl). I installed the festival speech synthesizer. Unfortunatly it does not work for me. The classical test for it is the following command line: echo "hello this is lniux " | festival --ttso which results in: jack_client_new: deprecated This system has no accessible HPET device (Device or resource busy)o Fuser /dev/hpet gives me: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/hpet: mccramer 2837 f...m (mccramer)jackd /etc/festival/siteinit.scm is set to (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -D plug:SLAVE=jack $FILE") (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) and my /etc/asound.conf is set to: pcm.jackplug { type plug slave { pcm "jack" } } pcm.jack { type jack playback_ports { 0 alsa_pcm:playback_1 1 alsa_pcm:playback_2 } capture_ports { 0 alsa_pcm:capture_1 1 alsa_pcm:capture_2 } } Applications like mplayer, kaffeine or zynaddsubfx works just fine...festival does not say any word to me... What can I do to give festival a mouth to speak? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards. mcc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user