Bug#638691: festival hangs, flite does not

Dear Kingsley, A little bit of tracking led me to discover the pause functionality in aplay (form alsa-utils) was added last year. This changing the old functionailty of aplay. Takashi Iwai suggested a patch to preserve the old functionality

Bug#638691: festival hangs, flite does not

Dear Kingsley, I was discussing this type of behaviour of festival with Kumar last week in conjunction with my assisting in the maintaining festival and mentioned that it appeared on my system but I needed to test on different hardware before filing a bug. Like you this only occurred to me with m

Bug#638691: festival hangs, flite does not

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 |