This bugs seems to be similar to Debian bugs #638691 and #638369. Ubuntu 11.04 shipped with alsa-utils 1.0.24 which introduced the pause functionality to aplay (part of alsa-utils). This is consistent with the version of alsa-utils also breaking festival in Debian. Upstream alsa project has a patch in their master to fix this change in aplay. I have tested this patch on a broken festival Debian system and it restored the functionality. Would an affected person be able to test this on Ubuntu?
I attach the patch which was added at the upstream alsa project by Takashi Iwai. His discussion can be found at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/85332 very best regards, Peter (Co-Uploader for festival on Debian as of last week) ** Patch added: "Potential patch requires testing on ubuntu 11.04 alsa-utils" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/778619/+attachment/2304747/+files/alsa-aplay-interactive-patch.diff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778619 Title: Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/778619/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
