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I'm using the Festival speech synthesizer under Ubuntu 10.04 like:

echo '(SayText "hello world")' | esddsp festival --pipe

This works perfectly on 32-bit systems, but on 64-bit machines it's unreliable. Usually, it'll work correctly the first time, and then subsequent calls with sound completely garbled, and I'll get this error:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/esound/libesddsp.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libesd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

How would I fix this? I've Googled, and it seems this is not a new error, but the problem seems to popup in different distros for different apps, and the solutions are usually convoluted and involve recompiling the entire audio stack.

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Reset to default
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Works for me. If you did not remove Pulseadio (Ubuntu's default audio system and ESD replacement) you may have more success in doing this:

pasdp instead of esddsp:

echo '(SayText "hello world")' | padsp festival --pipe

Pulseaudio's automagic alsa swallower:

festival '(SayText "hello world")'

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  • Thank you. I've been trying to fix this issue forever. The first works perfectly. The second sounds tinny and garbled and bypasses my mixer, as I heard it on my laptop's speakers even though I had headphones plugged in.
    – Cerin
    Commented Sep 28, 2011 at 21:26
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    You're welcome. Thank you too for bringing this up. I now use festival '(SayText "%t, by %a")' at the gmusicbrowser 'Now playing' plugin at track changes...
    – aquaherd
    Commented Sep 28, 2011 at 21:38

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