[Asterisk-Users] festival voices

[Tony Buser]

Chris Albertson wrote:

>try adding a set of parens like this: 
>
>festivalcommand=((voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk
>"%s"'file)(quit))\n
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>  
>

Unfortunately that results in the following error  at the asterisk console:
Feb 12 19:45:27 WARNING[409626]: app_festival.c:437 festival_exec: 
Festival returned ER

And the following error in the festival_server:
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : don_diphone
SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : \n

>Have you seen "festivox"?  It's a tool for building voices
>
>The key to making festival sound natural is to get the
>timming and entonation right.  The astrisk app uses festivels 
>"demo" test to speech application which is just that a
>quick dirty demo. 
>
>Have you seen the markup language on the CMU site?  
>http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html
>"Sable" can do MUCH better then the simple tts application.
>  
>

Thanks, I'll take a look at that.  So to use Sable I'd have to use 
festival from like an AGI script and not inside the Festival() function 
in extension.conf?  I blindly tried pasting sable markup in there and 
the best I could do was get it to read back the markup and all.  :)