Package: festival Version: 1:2.1~release-8 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I have been using text2wave in a script under Wheezy thus: ----- echo "$string" | text2wave |aplay -q ----- This now no longer works under Jessie. text2wave receives a SIGPIPE and no audio is heard: ----- $ echo "hello" |text2wave | aplay Playing WAVE 'stdin' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono 0:0,141,0 $ ----- If you run the following two commands, the file generated by each is different: ----- $ echo "hello" |text2wave > /tmp/x0.wav $ echo "hello" |text2wave | cat > /tmp/x1.wav ----- ----- $ diff /tmp/x0.wav /tmp/x1.wav Binary files /tmp/x0.wav and /tmp/x1.wav differ ----- ----- $ diff /tmp/x0.wav /tmp/x1.wav -a 1c1 � RIFF&nWAVEfmt �>}datan�������������������������������������������������������������� --- � RIFF$WAVEfmt �>}data�������������������������������������������������������������� 432c432 ����������� \ No newline at end of file --- �����������RIFF&nWAVEfmt �>}datan \ No newline at end of file ----- x0.wav works (audio is heard): ----- $ aplay /tmp/x0.wav Playing WAVE '/tmp/x0.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono ----- x1.wav does not work (no audio is heard, but no error is reported): ----- $ aplay /tmp/x1.wav Playing WAVE '/tmp/x1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 16000 Hz, Mono ----- Thanks for anything you can do to get me working again! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages festival depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u7 ii libestools2.1 1:2.1~release-8 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libncurses5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii sgml-base 1.26+nmu4 Versions of packages festival recommends: ii festvox-kallpc16k [festival-voice] 1.4.0-5 Versions of packages festival suggests: pn festival-freebsoft-utils <none> pn pidgin-festival <none> -- no debconf information
