@Peter Drysdale: I had tried fixing the problem by downgrading festival to one from the lucid repository. After reading your post I downgraded the alsa-utils package which fixed the problem. Wish I had tried that earlier. I've not tried your mentioned patch because my knowledge of how to do so is not sufficient.
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