[Asterisk-Dev] EAGI Help

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 12:03, Ben Merrills wrote:
> Seems like it would be a nice feature. 

Maybe, maybe not....

> I personally am rather poor at c, and being able to write an EAGI in
> another language, and be able to stream audio back into the channel from
> the EAGI would have been excellent!

That could be a lot of data to stream if we stuck to a SLINEAR data
stream. Probably wouln't scale too well. In fact, I'm not sure how well
the EAGI streaming out audio will scale.

> Seems like something that would benefit Asterisk quite a bit to me...
> might encourage more development from those who wouldn't consider it
> normally?! Seems to me that's partly what the whole AGI ethos is about,
> simple integration with Asterisk.

AGI is not necessarily about integration. It can be used that way just
as your forehead CAN be used as a hammering device. AGI allows you to
get in and do more complex directing of the core of asterisk to get a
task accomplished. 

> Having said this, if you can't write audio back to a channel from an
> EAGI then I'm going to have to figure it out in C, which isn't a
> pleasant prospect.

While you may not consider it pleasant, to the rest of us, it is nice
that you will take that on. If you have something of worth, the fact
that it is written into asterisk as a C app means you are obliged to
share it if distributed and we all gain. 

Too many easy audio outs/ins means it would become very easy for people
to write proprietary apps that don't get shared with the community. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steven
> Critchfield
> Sent: 29 July 2004 15:46
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] EAGI Help
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 03:48, Ben Merrills wrote:
> > I think you've confused my question. 
> > 
> > I just want to know, as it seems to be possible, how one inserts audio
> > into a channel via EAGI? Does anyone know how this is done? It seems
> > rather poorly documented in the Wiki.
> 
> You don't get access directly to the output stream. You get to tell
> asterisk what to do. So you can tell asterisk to stream file, you can
> use app_festival to speak, and probably a couple of things I am
> forgetting right now. EAGI only gets you the audio stream in real time
> on FD 4 so you can do something like stress analysis or speech
> recognition without having to make an app_* for asterisk to do the
> work(think linking and licensing problems).
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> > Devenijn
> > Sent: 28 July 2004 18:20
> > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] EAGI Help
> > 
> > The only TTS which works with Asterisk seems to be Festival which
> > doesn't support some languages like 'Dutch' and which is quite slow.
> in
> > our case and my personal opinion is that the TTS of Scansoft is a
> realy
> > good TTS and also supports a lot of languages.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Steve
> Underwood
> > Sent: woensdag 28 juli 2004 17:33
> > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] EAGI Help
> > 
> > 
> > Ben Merrills wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm developing some integration for Asterisk and a TTS system. How
> do 
> > > you insert audio into a channel? Can it be done with EAGI's? If so, 
> > > how, there seems to be little or no information on how they work 
> > > within the Wiki.
> > >
> > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Ben Merrills
> > >
> > > Griffin Internet
> > >
> > Since there is already integration of * with some TTS packages, why
> not 
> > just follow what they do?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> > 
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