[Xastir] Playing sounds

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:24:42PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <needhame1 at plateautel.net> flavor, containing:
>  KC7ZRU - Tate wrote:
> > On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:27 am, Earl Needham via Kubuntu wrote:
> >> 	Uh -- somebody send me a clue how to get sounds to play in Xastir.  I'm
> >> trying to get new station announcement, etc., to play, and I don't know
> >> th esyntax.  Apparently play with nothing else doesn't do it!  <G>
> > File > Config > Audio Alarms
> > and
> > File > Config > Speech
> > But, for speech to work, you'll have to have compiled in festival support
> > and started the festival server *before* you start Xastir.
> > festival --server & <enter>
> 
>  	Oops, guess I need to recompile for speech to work, but what about the 
>  audio alarms?

You need only have a program that can play audio files, and tell xastir what
that program is.  I recommend esdplay, which is in the esd-clients (or 
some similarly named) package.  It might even be installed already on your
Kubuntu system.  You need not compile anything new into xastir for
regular audio alarms, only for speech synthesis.

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