Festival with pulseaudio in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

I was having difficulty getting festival to work in the latest Ubuntu. I found quite a few places that said to add the following three lines to my $HOME/.festivalrc file:

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "aplay $FILE")
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd)


Those lines did not work for me, but when I changed aplay to paplay in the first line, it started working.

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