I wrote a simple patch for festival-gaim for use it with aoss. With this patch, if gaim doesn't use esd or artsd, festival-gaim try to use aoss and if it isn't installed, simply try direct access to the audio device like happen with original version. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 62554 [details, diff] files/festival-gaim-1.1-aoss-default.patch
Created attachment 62555 [details] festival-gaim-1.1-r1.ebuild this is a modded ebuild to use my patch
The accessibility teams heads up festival-gaim.
Please submit this patch upstream.