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I am getting an error while running festival on my system: linux: can,t open /dev/dsp

I was searching for this error on the Internet and found this instruction:

To solve this problem just write this .festivalrc in your home directory or /usr/share/festival/festival.scm

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay -q -c 1 -t raw -f s16 -r $SR $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)

but I don't have any document named .festivalrc in my home directory. I created a document in my home directory with file name .festivalrc and I copied above two lines in that document and saved it, but festival is still not working.

Please can anyone tell me right steps to solve this problem

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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You can find festival.scm file in /etc/festival.scm if you have installed festival through apt install.

rupshri
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I know it is an old question, but I arrived here having the same problem when trying to use Octave's audio input. I found a solution on the Notes of a Programmer blog.

In brief: "OSS version 3 was the original sound system for Linux, but was superseded by the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (or ALSA) in 2002" (2). If you are using ALSA, /dev/dsp does not exist, as it was part of OSS. However, it can be emulated using the alsa-oss package, which works as a wrapper.

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