IMessage on iOS 6 doesn't make alert sounds consistently?

After upgrading to iOS 6, my iMessage no longer makes alert noises when I get incoming messages on a consistent basis.
If I swipe in and check manuallly, my texts are there, but the phone never made any alert sound like it used to.
It seems to be worse after the phone has been "sleeping" for a while.
Anyone else?

I get the same thing.
I am in a convo in iMessage. Lock the phone with convo still on the screen. Convo still occurring, with my friend or friends replying and stuff. But I don't hear a single text alert. Not even the little alert that sounds when you are viewing the convo.
Now I unlock phone, exit convo or go to home screen. Lock phone again. Now I hear text alerts from that same convo. Seems like alerts don't sound when I'm in the conversation.
What's the problem here?

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