[Xastir] Sound/voice questions

[Jason Hitesman]

Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Jason Hitesman wrote:
> 
> 
>>On my Debian Sarge install I don't have 'vplay' 'play' 'auplay' or any
>>other sound player that I'm used to.  I haven't done an exhaustive
>>search yet to find out what is on there...but just changing vplay to
>>play won't help for us Debian users.
> 
> Understand.  It probably would help for the majority of Linux users
> though.

For what it's worth I finally did an apropos search and there dosn't 
appear to be anything for playing audio files on my system (well other 
than xmms which I added - but that's a little bulky for this application!)

I've looked for debian packages for vplay,play,auplay but didn't see 
any.  Any debian users have recomendations on packages with good players?

>>I'm also still not getting my speech from Festival.  (Not that it
>>matters since I'll have to stop using that when I get my soundmodem
>>working!) I haven't changed any configuration, the festival server is
>>still running and I can telnet to it and have it speak....and I don't
>>get any errors from xastir.  But no voice :(  It was working before but
>>a couple of CVS updates ago it stopped - I didn't notice exactly when
>>because I had the volume turned down.
> 
> 
> Again I ask:  What is the status of Festival support in CVS?  Is is
> working for anybody?  Anyone else having troubles now with it?
> 
> We're getting ready to do a release, so it's important to know the
> answers to those questions right now.

I haven't updated my sources in a week or so - I'll do an update today 
and see if I still have the problem.

----
Jason