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Tried to make an utterance in festival and it seems /dev/dsp/ is missing in the debian. How to add this?

festival> (SayText "Hello")
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
#<Utterance 0xb669c708>
chris
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    Better suited for superuser.com. Or if it is ubuntu flavor, rather than pure debian, please ask on askubuntu.com. – anishsane Jun 30 '14 at 14:45

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Followed the instruction on https://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ

installing oss-compat using 

apt-get install oss-compat

solves the issue basically but might be good to load the snd-pcm-oss using

modprobe snd-pcm-oss

this has to be done as root. This will create the /dev/dsp and solve the issue.

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