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Re: [LUG] Simultaneously recording from multiple sources using Pulse Audio

 

On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:29:58 +0100
Adrian Midgley (Gmail) wrote:

> possibly in the same category of problem, Festival can't talk on this
> machine, it reports a lack of access to /dev/dsp
> 
> WHat can I do to get it talking, please?
> 
> Lenny with some bits of Squeeze. 

/dev/dsp is used by the OSS audio stack.

You could try running Festival through padsp.  padsp is the OSS wrapper
for Pulse Audio.  It's part of the pulseaudio-utils package (on Ubuntu
and presumably other Debian based systems).

Grant.

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