Sound problem

[abarbarian]

Hi I have set up a Pi and as far as I can tell have set up alsa correctly.
I can hear a voice when I do

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav')

But can not get sound any other way. None of the audio players I have tried work. I am trying to get "festival" to work but get

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '@alarmpi ~]$ echo "This is an example. Arch is the best." | festival --tts
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:682: audio open error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory')

Above is only a part of the error output.

I have scoured the net but can find no solution.
Can anyone offer any advice ??
Thanks.

[pepedog]

The sample has to be 44100kHz
Have you tried the package moc?

Here is a little festival script, if you saved script as sayit and made it exectutable, it works with-
sayit "hello world"
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '#!/bin/bash

echo "$1" | text2wave -otype wav -F 44100 -o letter.wav ; ch_wave -otype riff -F 44100 -o file.wav -pc FIRST letter.wav letter.wav; aplay file.wav
')
What does this give?
aplay -L

[abarbarian]

If my sound was set up correctly I was under the impression that this should give audio output.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '$ echo "This is an example. Arch is the best." | festival --tts')

aplay -L gives me

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)')

Never heard of moc but I will give it a go. I'm not at all sure what the script stuff is you so kindly gave so I will leave it for now thanks.

I am using a tv as a monitor and am trying to get audio through the jack socket. I forgot to mention that before.

Thanks.

[abarbarian]

I installed "moc" and when I try to run it I get similar out put as my first post and it finishes with

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'FATAL_ERROR no valid sound driver')

[pepedog]

You did load the sound driver? I assumed so as you played a sound.
What does lsmod show?

[abarbarian]

Thanks for taking the time to help pepedog.

For some strange reason all the users on the Pi only belong to the user group despite having been set up as belonging to " audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner"
So I added meself to all of them and now moc works just fine with a nice sounding crackle free output.
However festival still does not work.
Did some digging and found this

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')RROR reading file '/dev/snd/by-path/platform-bcm2835_AUDIO-0':File descriptor in bad state