I can replicate this with a rebuilt, debugging version of the program (and also with the official package).
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000407458 in DBtoLIN (dB=1950) at klatt/parwave.c:584 584 lgtemp = amptable[dB] * .001; (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000000407458 in DBtoLIN (dB=1950) at klatt/parwave.c:584 #1 0x0000000000407a28 in gethost (pars=0x8d3520) at klatt/parwave.c:780 #2 0x000000000040913d in parwav (pars=0x8d3520, jwave=0x7fff51320ad0) at klatt/parwave.c:1759 #3 0x00000000004070f7 in klatt_to_ulaw (in=0x8ff0c0 "\024\005\220\001x\005\214\n�, inlen=26000, out=0x7fff51320bc0, outlen=0x7fff51320bb8) at klatt/klatt.c:241 #4 0x000000000040fb69 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fff51320d08) at recite/main.c:442 DBtoLIN does a lower-bounds-check on the volume, but not an upper-bounds-check. I haven't traced where that excessive volume setting comes from. According to the man page, "recite ok" tries to read text from a file called "ok". Observed behaviour suggests that the man page is wrong. Whether it segfaults or not depends on what it's asked to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/development/deb-source/recite/recite-1.0$ echo "ok" | recite Segmentation fault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/development/deb-source/recite/recite-1.0$ echo "aa" | recite recite: could not open "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory (I have an ALSA-only kernel. It doesn't work for me with the aoss wrapper either, but that could be something misconfigured on my machine). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) [custom-built] Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages recite depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries recite recommends no packages. recite suggests no packages. This gives no hints for working out why it builds differently on my machine compared to Robert's. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]