[Asterisk-Users] Festival tts

[Adam Robins]

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?  I'm trying this from the
command prompt.

# echo "Hello World" | /usr/bin/text2wave -scale 1.5 -F 000 -o
/tmp/1141915933.wav
rateconv: failed to convert from 16000 to 0
doing v
# 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Antoine
Megalla
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:27 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Festival tts


I tried doing the same things as you to make Festival work with
Asterisk, but I had a small problem with Festival only prducing the
sound if the text was tess than 14 characters !!!!

So I used the other approach and used the text2wave utility instead (I
saw on some postings that people recommended it) and it wrols like a
charm now.

Here is the complete macro I used for TTS:

[macro-sandtts]
exten => s,1,Set(FNAME=${EPOCH})
exten => s,2,System(echo "${ARG1}" |
/usr/bin/text2wave -scale 1.5 -F
000  -o /tmp/${FNAME}.wav)
exten => s,3,Playback(/tmp/${FNAME})
exten => s,4,System(rm /tmp/${FNAME}.wav)

First we creat ann (almost) unique file name Next we call the text2wave
utility with correct switches and passing the text we need to pronounce
as input to the utility.
then we playback the generated wave file.
Finally we remove the generated wave file.

Just call the macro with the text you want to say and it will work for
you.


> Message: 28
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:43:56 -0000
> From: "Steven" <s.jack at compserv.gla.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Festival tts
> To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
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>
> Hi I have installed Festival on the same box as
asterisk and followed the
> instructions to integrate it with asterisk.
> Festival seems to work fine on its own performing
text to speech from the
> command line or via a file.
> Asterisk answers the call but there is no speech. I
can see no errors in 
> the
> Festival log file
>
> The asterisk console shows
> --Executing Answer("SIP/81801-c091", "") in a  new
stack
> --Executing Festival("SIP/81801-c091", "mary had a
little lamb") in a  new
> stack
> ==Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf':Found
> there is nothing else after this
>
> If I start festival as festival --server I can see
the output
>
> Server 11:39:14 : Festival server started on port
1314
> Client(1) 11:39:21 : accepted from localhost
> Client(1) 11:39:21 : disconnected
>
> Initially I added the code to festival.scm for * but
later patched the
> Festival code and re-complied it.
>
> For every test I have restarted * after Festival
>
> Any help appreciated
>
> Thanks
> Steven
>
> Steven Jack
> Videoconferencing Manager
> University of Glasgow
> Computing Service
> Glasgow G12 8QQ
> UK
> Tel +44(0)1413303828 Fax +44(0)1413303820
> Email: s.jack at compserv.gla.ac.uk



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