# Podman or Docker how get the say node and festival working?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/podman-or-docker-how-get-the-say-node-and-festival-working/101766>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [10 September 2026 12:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/podman-or-docker-how-get-the-say-node-and-festival-working/101766 "2026-09-10T12:01:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![questuk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/questuk/32/4059_2.png) [@questuk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/questuk)\
**Post date:** [10 September 2026 12:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/podman-or-docker-how-get-the-say-node-and-festival-working/101766/1 "2026-09-10T12:01:14Z")

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I am using Podman, (I would imagine Docker would be the similar), and node-red container.

I am trying to get Festival working using the 'say' node. Has anyone got this working? as I cannot get it working.

My audio is via HDMI to my monitor

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**Author:** ![hardillb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hardillb/32/12373_2.png) [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)\
**Post date:** [13 September 2026 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/podman-or-docker-how-get-the-say-node-and-festival-working/101766/2 "2026-09-13T08:09:23Z")

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Depending on what audio subsystem you are using (alsa/pulse) you are probably going to need to mount some items from `/dev` into the container.

I would guess pulse for most modern distros, so I would suggest you search for how to get pulse working in a container. IIRC it will also probably require mounting the d-bus socket into the container as well.

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**Author:** ![questuk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/questuk/32/4059_2.png) [@questuk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/questuk)\
**Post date:** [15 September 2026 10:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/podman-or-docker-how-get-the-say-node-and-festival-working/101766/3 "2026-09-15T10:10:17Z")

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Thanks for replying.

I did get it working with lots of help from AI and some corrections by me 😀

It did not use the 'say' node, from memory i think it was the 'exec' node