Description of problem: I still use 'esd' for remote sound in applications like freenx (in particular nx only supports 'esd' for sound and does not (yet) support pulseaudio). I used to be able to get festival to work with festival by doing something like: echo "(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'esdaudio) (SayText \"Hello\")" | festival --pipe This worked at least in Fedora 8 (my previous installation). However in F12, I now get the error message: ESD playback not supported My understanding from googling is that ESD support needs to be compiled in. Would it be possible to compile back in and *restore* support for esd in festival to allow festival to work properly with other fedora apps like freenx? Thanks
Is anybody following and responsible for this bugzilla report?
I really regret that I don't have time to grab it and work on it. What really needs to happen is proper PA support.
But sometimes you do want ESD - not all of us are drinking the PA cool-aid especially since it still seems to be a work-in-progress and breaks other applications. Would it be that hard to compile-in ESD support as used to be done. Presumably, one could go back to earlier FC releases and see what changed.
Matt, we do have proper PA support in F12: * Tue Sep 29 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen> - 1.96-16 - Add native pulseaudio support (#471047) esd support is not coming back.