[Asterisk-Users] Re: Festival Woes

[Brian Dingman]

I changed all the text to lower case and removed the quotes. After
doing so, I got the following error:

SIOD ERROR: wrong type of argument to car : wholeutt

Strange thing is sometimes I get the error and sometimes I don't


On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:54:25 -0500, Brian Dingman <bdingman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Asterisk v1.0 is running on RH 9. I installed festival RPM
> (festival-1.4.2-16.i386.rpm) and edited the festival.scm file to add:
> (define (tts_textasterisk string mode)
>  "(tts_textasterisk STRING MODE)
>  Apply tts to STRING. This function is specifically designed for
>  use in server mode so a single function call may synthesize the string.
>  This function name may be added to the server safe functions."
>  (let wholeutt (utt.synth (eval (list 'Utterance 'Text string)))
>  (utt.wave.resample wholeutt 8000)
>  (utt.wave.rescale wholeutt 5)
>  (utt.send.wave.client wholeutt)))
> 
> I am getting the following error in the CLI:
> -- Executing Answer("SIP/phone1-e5f4", "") in new stack
> -- Executing Festival("SIP/phone1-e5f4", "Please record your message")
> in new stack
> == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found
> Jan 10 13:34:23 WARNING[4509]: app_festival.c:444 festival_exec:
> Festival returned ER
> 
> Here is what is in the festival_server.log:
> "Load server start ./festival_server.scm"
>  festival port=1314
> wrapper Mon Jan 10 13:33:57 EST 2005 : USING DEFAULT CONFIGURATION
> wrapper Mon Jan 10 13:33:57 EST 2005 : waiting
> server    Mon Jan 10 13:33:57 2005 : Festival server started on port 1314
> client(1) Mon Jan 10 13:34:23 2005 : accepted from localhost
> client(1) Mon Jan 10 13:34:23 2005 : disconnected
> 
> extensions.conf
> ; Record Message
> exten => _*500,1,Answer
> exten => _*500,2,Festival('Please record your message')
> exten => _*500,3,Record(mymessage:gsm)
> exten => _*500,4,Festival('You said')
> exten => _*500,5,Playback(mymessage)
> 
> festival.conf
> [general]
> host=asterisk
> port=1314
> usecache=yes
> cachedir=/var/lib/asterisk/festivalcache/
> festivalcommand=(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n
> 
> Any ideas?
>