[Asterisk-Users] Festival Installation - Asterisk 1.0-RC2 && Debian Woody

[Sebastian Sporleder]

Darryl Ross wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Thought I'd take a bash at trying to get Festival to work here on my 
> lab system with the aim of using it to create our IVR menu prompts. 
> I've spent most of the afternoon searching through the Wiki, the 
> Festival website and Google and I've got a couple of questions.
>
> First one is that the 'Asterisk+festival+installation' page on the 
> Wiki mentions the RedHat 9 RPMs for Festival 1.4.2 will not work with 
> asterisk. Is this also the case with the deb files in Woody? (1.4.2-2.1)
>
> I have tried to use the debian provided package, but I get the 
> following in the Asterisk console (I've obtusified the phone IP 
> address...):
>
>     -- Endpoint 'aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1' observed 'hd'
>     -- MGCP mgcp_new(MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1) created in state: Down
>     -- Endpoint 'aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1' observed '*'
>     -- Endpoint 'aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1' observed '1'
>     -- Endpoint 'aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1' observed '4'
>     -- Executing Answer("MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1", "") in new stack
>     -- MGCP mgcp_answer(MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1) on 
> aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1
>     -- Executing Festival("MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1", "This is only 
> a test") in new stack
>   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found
> Aug 18 16:28:17 WARNING[491537]: app_festival.c:440 festival_exec: 
> Festival returned ER
>   == Spawn extension (local-clients, *14, 2) exited non-zero on 
> 'MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1'
>     -- Executing Hangup("MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1", "") in new stack
>   == Spawn extension (local-clients, h, 1) exited non-zero on 
> 'MGCP/aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1'
>     -- No command found on [203.33.246.xx] for transaction 168. 
> Ignoring...
>     -- Endpoint 'aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1' observed 'hu'
>     -- MGCP handle_request(aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx-1) ast_channel already 
> destroyed
>     -- MGCP handle_request(aaln/1 at 203.33.246.xx) set vmwi(-)
>
> In the festival server log I get:
>
> client(8) Wed Aug 18 16:28:17 2004 : accepted from localhost
> client(8) Wed Aug 18 16:28:17 2004 : disconnected
>
>
> Assuming that the debian packages are not compatible, which version of 
> Festival do I need? The Wiki page mentioned above says to grab the 
> tarball of 1.4.3, which is no longer available from the website. Only 
> 1.95 is available. Will that work? Does it need the patch mentioned on 
> the Wiki page?
>
Of course it is available on theri website!
Have a look here: http://festvox.org/packed/festival/

I have installed it from souce yesterday and there are also patches for 
1.4.1 and 1.4.2 in the CVS contrib folder!

Greetz
Sebastian