[Asterisk-Users] Festival Problem

[Kris Edwards]

I have a different problem, but you might end up using the same
"solution" as I did.  I wanted to change to the cmu_us_slt_arctic_hks
voice (which sounds AMAZING to me.. way better than what AT&T wants 300
bucks for), but no matter what I did, I couldn't get Asterisk to work
with it.  So I am using a bash script to generate the file and then have
asterisk play it.

something like:

exten => s,4,System(sayit "${CIDNAME} calling from ${CIDINFO}" cidinfo) 
; spoken txt in quotes, then filename
exten => s,5,Wait(2) ; or some propmt.. just so the system has time to
make the file.
exten => s,6,Playback(cidinfo)

My Bash sux, but this works for me

/#!/bin/bash/
*echo* $1 *|* text2wave -o /tmp/work.wav -otype wav
normalize -g 6db /tmp/work.wav
*sox* /tmp/work.wav -r 8000 /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/$2.gsm resample
*rm* /tmp/work.wav


Text2wave does have the capability to output to ulaw (gsm too I think),
but they were too quiet for me so I decided to output wavs so I could
normalize them and then convert them to gsm with sox.

There are probably better ways, but everything works for me now and I
have the voice I want :D

Kris



Michael Welter wrote:

> I'm attempting to use Festival with Asterisk on an x86_64 system. 
> This IVR application works ok on a P4 system.
>
> I'm using the FC3 x86_64 distro on a single processor Opteron system.
> Festival by itself (using the command line and speakers) seems to work
> ok, and Asterisk without Festival works ok.  When the Asterisk
> dialplan calls Festival, however, Festival reports a disconnect and
> Asterisk's Festival command does not complete. Later, when I shut down
> the system for reboot, I get a kernel panic.
>
> I've tried both the FC4 Festival rpm as well as the source download
> from festvox.org.  I modify the siteinit.scm file as per the wiki
> page, and I use the stock festival.conf file in Asterisk.
>
> Has anyone experienced this behavior, and is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
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