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

[Peter Drysdale]

Dear Ralph Green,

Please reply with the version number of alsa-utils in Ubuntu 11.10 you are
running.

best regards,
Peter

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Ralph Green <sirable at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bug still exists in Ubuntu 11.10.  I am running xubuntu 11.10 and I have
> applied all fixes available up to this day.
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> Title:
>  Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text
>
> Status in “festival” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  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.
>
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