[Asterisk-Users] Festival problems

[Gavin Hamill]

On Saturday 24 April 2004 01:06, Jeff Workman wrote:

> I tried it without the quotes as well, same thing.
>
> > Be sure you start Festival "before" starting *.
>
> Did that as well.  Not sure what the problem is.

I've just been installing Festival this evening and got it working after a 
couple of issues.

First off, did you install it from sources and apply the patch in the 
asterisk/contrib directory, or did you use a vendor RPM / deb package?

Next, instead of running festival in the background using an /etc/init.d/ 
script or 'service festival start', please try to run it in a window using 
'festival --server' - this should highlight any errors.

Furthermore, run asterisk itself with 'asterisk -vvvvc' since this will let 
you see all messages pertaining to Festival.

So, assuming you have something in your extensions.conf like

exten => 603,1,Answer
exten => 603,2,Festival(this is a test of festival)
exten => 603,3,Hangup

do you see anything in either the Asterisk or festival windows?

For reference I used Festival 1.4.2 that comes with Debian woody (recompiled 
with the 1.4.2 patch added of course)

I did get some 'Festival ER' errors but they seemed to be because I used 
uppercase charactersin the test string..

Cheers,
Gavin.