[Asterisk-Users] Festival long starting time

[Ronald Wiplinger]

I have installed festival and it works, but it takes a long time, till 
it starts. People hang up before they can listen the info.

Q:

1. How can I shorten this time?
2. If two people call this extension, the second one must wait till the 
first one is finished. Is there a way to serve multiple poeple?
3. I have setup festival as explained in the first example. What are the 
advantages / disadvantages of the three methodes?
4. How long can a info be?
5. Besides weather.agi, what other application exist or what could be 
useful to use festival within asterisk


bye

Ronald