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 more recent version of festival. This may be a confirmation on different hardware. A temporary kludge workaround is to install pulseaudio package on your system and add to a .festivalrc file in your home directory with the following commands:- (Parameter.set 'Audio_Command "paplay $FILE") (Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command) (Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'snd) I do not consider this an adequate workaround and continue to try to find a proper solution. I also noticed the kludge workaround is slightly "buzzy". You will know when you hear it. I am also interested in finding out why this occurs. Would you be able to confirm or otherwise if it is more "buzzy" than your recollection when you used the older festival. Would you be able to verify if the kludge removes the problem to help in narrowing done the bug. I don't suggest you keep the kludge if you don't want to use pulseaudio for other reasons just give me an idea of whether it disappears in that case. best regards, Peter
