Thanks for the response. I have all the files you mentioned and festival didn't work. I have to use a headphone and one of them works for other programs. However, I don't have a general volume control (Debian Linux). Volume control works thru xmms. Regards, Vijay --- On Thu 05/26, Richard Cohen < richard@daijobu.co.uk > wrote: From: Richard Cohen [mailto: richard@daijobu.co.uk] To: rvijay07@myway.com, gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:04:06 +0100 Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Listening to EBooks in Text Format !!! rvijay07 wrote:<br>> This is mainly for Debian LINUX users. I just got festival and tried it yesterday. I didn't hear anything. Looks like additional packages are needed.<br><br>If your sure that your sound system is working OK outside festival, you <br>are probably missing one of the voices.<br><br>$ apt-cache search festvox<br><br>festvox-kallpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz<br>festvox-kallpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz<br>festvox-kdlpc16k - American English male speaker for festival, 16khz<br>festvox-kdlpc8k - American English male speaker for festival, 8khz<br>flite - A small run-time speech synthesis engine<br>festvox-don - minimal British English male speaker for festival<br>festvox-rablpc16k - British English male speaker for festival, 16khz<br>festvox-rablpc8k - British English male speaker for festival, 8khz<br>festvox-ellpc11k - Castilian Spanish male speaker for Festival<br><br>$ echo "Festival is great" | festival --tts<br><br>Richard<br> _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com