[Bug 778619] [NEW] Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text

[mikey]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: festival

1) Ubuntu 11.04
2) festival: Installed: 1:2.0.95~beta-5.1ubuntu2
3) When starting festival in TTS mode, for example by running 'festival --tts /usr/share/doc/syslinux/usbkey.txt', festival should read the file then exit with no user input.
4) Instead, Festival starts a tiny fraction of speech then displays to the terminal '=== PAUSE === ', but with no user input it cannot be unpaused so has to be exited with ^C

*NB:*  This is a regression as I have been regularly using festival in
this way up until upgrading (from a fresh 10.10 install) to 11.04. Also
THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN FESTIVAL IS ASKED TO READ LARGE AMOUNTS OF TEXT.
So, when testing please try it with large blocks of text, it will not
occur for only a small paragraph.

** Affects: festival (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text