Bug#591717: espeak: Library unble to open soundcard.

[Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas.boulenguez@free.fr>]

Package: espeak
Version: 1.43.03-2
Severity: normal

Hello.

$ echo Hello | espeak --stdin
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 924
Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1142
Expression 'parameters->channelCount <= maxChans' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 924
Expression 'ValidateParameters( outputParameters, hostApi, StreamDirection_Out )' failed in 'src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.c', line: 1142
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)
wave_open_sound > Pa_OpenStream : err=-9996 (Invalid device)

produces no sound while

$ echo Hello | espeak --stdin --stdout > /tmp/tmp.wav && vlc /tmp/tmp.wav

says a polite greeting.

I tried another application (hydrogen) using libportaudio
(19+svn20071022-3+b1), it works fine.

-- System Information:
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages espeak depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libespeak1                    1.43.03-2  A multi-lingual software speech sy
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.4-7  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-7    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3