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/dev/dsp missing in debian and cannot hear festival utterance

Tried to make an utterance in festival and it seems /dev/dsp/ is missing in the debian. How to add this?

festival> (SayText "Hello")
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
#<Utterance 0xb669c708>
Solution

  • Followed the instruction on https://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ

    installing oss-compat using 

    apt-get install oss-compat

    solves the issue basically but might be good to load the snd-pcm-oss using

    modprobe snd-pcm-oss

    this has to be done as root. This will create the /dev/dsp and solve the issue.