Festival not playing sound

[Sandra T]

I ran the SayText command in festival on the VM but didn’t hear any sound. Sound is working on the VM. Anyone else had this issue? Thank you!

[Yuyang G]

You need to wrap every command with parentheses. i.e., (SayText “<something>”)

[Simon]

If you get an error message, include it here. If there is no error message, then something else is wrong. Here’s what it looks like when SayText runs correctly:

festival> (SayText "Hello world.")
#<Utterance 0x7f17db4840f0>
festival> 

and here’s what some errors might look like:

festival> SayText "Hello world."  
#<CLOSURE (text) (begin "(SayText TEXT)
TEXT, a string, is rendered as speech." (utt.play (utt.synth (eval (list (quote Utterance) (quote Text) text)))))>
"Hello world."

festival> (SayText "Hello world." 
> 

festival> (SayText Hello world.)  
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : Hello

festival> SayText("Hello world.")
#<CLOSURE (text) (begin "(SayText TEXT)
TEXT, a string, is rendered as speech." (utt.play (utt.synth (eval (list (quote Utterance) (quote Text) text)))))>
SIOD ERROR: bad function : "Hello world."

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