Comment # 14 on bug 981271 from Matthias Svete

I tested the last festival rpm (2.4.6.2) from Leap 42.3 on Tumbleweed with
command line and it worked after:
putting the configuration files from /usr/share/festival/ to
/usr/share/festival/lib as mentioned by Richard Farthing

Since I wanted to generate speech output from command line output
I had also to activate the custom audio output in the siteinit.scm file by
these  lines (after installation as comments):

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'riff)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "play -q $FILE")

which seems to be the recommended way on current linux machines since otherwise
the output is tried over the deprecated /dev/dsp

The bug seems more a festival maintenance bug than a KTTSMgr bug.

BR MSV