Audio cut off with festival and espeak

[yameen]

Hello,

I am experiencing some rather strange problems with tts, tried festival directly and espeak, I end up getting the audio only for latter half.
so:

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echo “Hello World” | festival --tts

and

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espeak -ven+f3 -k5 -s150 "Hello World"

give only the audio 'world', it sounds like its un-naturally clipped

I have followed the instruction to set this up from http://elinux.org/RPi_Text_to_Speech_%2 ... nthesis%29

I have seen a couple of post suggesting I fill in garbage leading what I want to output, this feels a little wrong, considering I recall getting this to work on the raspbian on a raspberry pi 1.

current setup is:
Raspbian 3.18, raspberry pi 2, HDMI audio (forced as I couldn't get the jack audio to work)

Any help or pointers appreciated.

[dom]

It's probably just the amount of time your tv takes to "warm up" before it can produce audio. I suspect with analogue (or a different tv) this wouldn't be an issue.

To work around this, you need the audio channel to remain open, not open/close every time you launch festival/espeak.
Try adding to config.txt

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force_hdmi_open=1

and reboot. That may fix it. Alternatively play silence in the background (e.g. "aplay silence.wav &" and find a silent wav file) to keep the channel open.