Package: festival
Version: 1:2.1~release-1
Severity: normal

Thank you very much for maintaining Debian's
festival package.

It's impressive and handy.

I happened to notice that it hangs on the
following, at least for me:

    $ echo team ... them. Tonight? 3? and. Knicks? SILENTLY HANGS HERE | 
festival --language americanenglish --tts

After I press enter, but before it starts
speaking, it issues the following warning:

    PAUSE command ignored (no hw support)

I've read some reports that associate the above
warning with alsa.

I recently upgraded both festival and alsa.

It didn't hang with previous versions and the
same hardware.

For what it's worth, flite works:

    $ echo team ... them. Tonight? 3? and. Knicks? SILENTLY HANGS HERE | flite

Thanks,
Kingsley

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages festival depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.113           add and remove users and groups
ii  alsa-utils               1.0.24.2-1      Utilities for configuring and usin
ii  dpkg                     1.16.0.3        Debian package management system
ii  install-info             4.13a.dfsg.1-6  Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-8         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libc6                    2.13-16         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libesd0                  0.2.41-9        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libestools2.1            1:2.1~release-2 Edinburgh Speech Tools Library
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.6.1-6       GCC support library
ii  libncurses5              5.9-1           shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++6               4.6.1-6         GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-27          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  sgml-base                1.26+nmu1       SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii  sysv-rc                  2.88dsf-13.11   System-V-like runlevel change mech

Versions of packages festival recommends:
ii  festvox-kallpc16k [festival-v 1.4.0-5    American English male speaker for 
ii  festvox-kdlpc16k [festival-vo 1.4.0-5    American English male speaker for 

Versions of packages festival suggests:
pn  festival-freebsoft-utils      <none>     (no description available)
pn  pidgin-festival               <none>     (no description available)

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