Oh, and start a thread, so I can slap Thanks.
Edit: I could have sworn this was in off-topic....
/me slaps thanks.

But we already have esd; just the stuff from debian esound-clients is missing; I guess you are probably aware of this, but your post makes it sound like you're packaging the whole thing, so I had to speak up...


Also, perhaps init.scm or siteinit.scm would be more appropriate than festival.scm?