Festival is a bit big, instead I downloaded rsynth and cross compiled it.
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work on the empeg, though it works on my redhat
box. When I strace it it all appears to be functioning; it does some ioctls on
/dev/dsp and then writes data to it, but no sound. I also compiled aumix
and checked that the volume hadn't been turned down, but no luck. Anyone
got any idea? Does /dev/dsp have to be written in 4608 byte chunks as well as
/dev/audio? I modified rsynth to do that but it didn't make any difference.

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Paul