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

[Darryl Ross]

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?

Does anyone have an apt compatible repository of everything needed to 
get Festival working with Asterisk under Debian Woody?

Thanks in advance
Darryl


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Darryl Ross
Senior Network Engineer
OEG Australia
Email: darryl at oeg.com.au
Phone: 08 81228363
Office: 08 81226361

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