no sound at command line

[Phil Meyer]

Guy Schlosser wrote:
> Hey all, just wanted to write and see if I can get some help.  I am 
> running Fedora Core 6, test 3 on a P-4 2.8 GHZ HT processor with an 
> AC'97 sound chip.  I can get sound in X Windows, using Gnome and Orca, 
> but when I try to issue commands like:
> $festival
> SayText "Hello"
> I get no sound out of my speaker.  I've checked my amixer settings, 
> and everything seems to be turned on and up to max.  Is there a 
> service or kernel module I need to load?  Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Guy
> P.S. Isn't FC6 final supposed to be released today?  When it is, can I 
> do a yum upgrade or something like that to come up to current?
>
>
edit a text file:

 -> cat my.txt
Hello there Phil.
I am glad you are back.
Would you care for a game of chess?
 -> festival --tts my.txt

Works.

You are in command mode in your example.

have fun!