[asterisk-users] Cepstral voices

[Steve Prior]

Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
> what's the easiest way of using cepstral voices with asterisk ? On their 
> website, in the ssml page 
> (http://www.cepstral.com/cgi-bin/support?page=ssml), they say
> 
> "Asterisk PBX
> SSML can be used with Cepstral voices in Asterisk by simply embedding 
> the markup into the input text."
> 
> what input text ? To what application ?

I agree completely with the app_swift suggestion from loopfree as Kai 
suggested.  It provides the app_Swift which you can use from within a 
dialplan.  In fact, if you're getting fancy by using a fastAGI bound 
language(as I'm doing with asterisk-java), app_swift becomes the only 
good option.

<slight rant>I think Cepstral should be providing an app_swift like 
binding themselves because if you're writing an application which is 
going to use information from a back end business model in creating the 
speech (and this is something they seem to think is their future and I 
agree), then a high level language through fastAGI seems by far the best 
way to control the call.
</slight rant>

Stay away from app_cepstral, if you're Googling it appears to be an 
option, but it didn't work for me.

Steve