Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 reached End Of Life, and the bug is fixed on 12.04, so I close this bug.
Thanks to everyone who helped fixing it! :-) ** Changed in: festival (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/778619 Title: Festival TTS starts 'paused' for blocks of text To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/festival/+bug/778619/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs