[asterisk-users] No sound from Festival, but *something* is happening

[Martin Smith]

Hey folks,

So I'm trying to get Festival() working on 1.2.17. I'm trying to use
app_festival:

Here's the show dialplan output from that extension:

  '3378' =>         1. Answer()
[pbx_config]
                    2. Festival(Hello Asterisk caller. How is your day?)
[pbx_config]
                    3. Playback(vm-goodbye)
[pbx_config]
                    4. Hangup()
[pbx_config]

In the Festival server logs, I actually see:

client(1) Tue Jul 17 16:38:32 2007 : accepted from localhost
client(1) Tue Jul 17 16:38:32 2007 : disconnected

But on the channel in question, I hear "vm-goodbye" and it hangs up.
I've turned on the caching option in /etc/asterisk/festival.conf, and
then looked in the cache directory, and files *are* appearing there.

I'm using the default command:
festivalcommand=(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n

Even the verbose output shows it working:
    -- Executing Answer("Zap/97-1", "") in new stack
    -- Executing Festival("Zap/97-1", "Hello Asterisk caller. How is
your day?") in new stack
  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found
    -- Executing Playback("Zap/97-1", "vm-goodbye") in new stack
    -- Playing 'vm-goodbye' (language 'en')
 == Spawn extension (default, 3378, 4) exited non-zero on 'Zap/97-1'
    -- Executing Hangup("Zap/97-1", "") in new stack
  == Spawn extension (default, h, 1) exited non-zero on 'Zap/97-1'
    -- Hungup 'Zap/97-1'


Any ideas as to why I can't hear anything? Thanks!

Martin Smith, Systems Developer
martins at bebr.ufl.edu
Bureau of Economic and Business Research
University of Florida
(352) 392-0171 Ext. 221