[Asterisk-Users] asterick and festival...Help!

[Michael Welter]

John Gruber wrote:
> Earlier this afternoon I had this working
> 
> exten => 2890,1,Answer
> exten => 2890,2,GoTo(12)
> exten => 2890,12,Wait(1)
> exten => 2890,13,Festival('I can say numbers like')
> exten => 2890,14,SayNumber(1230001,f)
> exten => 2890,15,Wait(1)
> exten => 2890,16,HangUp
> 
> I was so very proud of myself...
> 
> All of a sudden after a reboot.... I get the following from the same 
> call plan
> 
> --- (9 headers 0 lines)---
>    -- Executing Festival("SIP/1000-2915", "I can say numbers like") in 
> new stack
>  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found
>  == Spawn extension (mytest, 2890, 13) exited non-zero on 'SIP/1000-2915'
> 
> and of course the call exits.
> Here is my /etc/asterick/festival.conf
> 
> [general]
> host=127.0.0.1
> port=1314
> usecache=no
> cachedir=/var/lib/asterisk/festivalcache/
> festivalcommand=(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n
> 
> Everything is running on the same box.  I have rebooted... nothing is 
> var log messages either.
> 
> The local festival_client connects and I can put in (SayText "I can say 
> numbers like") and it works great.
> 
> The festival_server log show only this for the calls from asterick:
> client(11) Thu Aug 18 17:53:01 2005 : accepted from (my machine name here)
> client(11) Thu Aug 18 17:53:01 2005 : disconnected
> 
> So it looks like it is connecting right.
> 
Delete the files in /var/lib/asterisk/festivalcache and then try it 
again--see if the behavior changes.