[asterisk-users] No sound from Festival, but *something* is happening

[Anthony Francis]

Martin Smith wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> So I'm trying to get Festival() working on 1.2.17. I'm trying to use
> app_festival:
>
> Here's the show dialplan output from that extension:
>
>   '3378' =>         1. Answer()
> [pbx_config]
>                     2. Festival(Hello Asterisk caller. How is your day?)
> [pbx_config]
>                     3. Playback(vm-goodbye)
> [pbx_config]
>                     4. Hangup()
> [pbx_config]
>
> In the Festival server logs, I actually see:
>
> client(1) Tue Jul 17 16:38:32 2007 : accepted from localhost
> client(1) Tue Jul 17 16:38:32 2007 : disconnected
>
> But on the channel in question, I hear "vm-goodbye" and it hangs up.
> I've turned on the caching option in /etc/asterisk/festival.conf, and
> then looked in the cache directory, and files *are* appearing there.
>
> I'm using the default command:
> festivalcommand=(tts_textasterisk "%s" 'file)(quit)\n
>
> Even the verbose output shows it working:
>     -- Executing Answer("Zap/97-1", "") in new stack
>     -- Executing Festival("Zap/97-1", "Hello Asterisk caller. How is
> your day?") in new stack
>   == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found
>     -- Executing Playback("Zap/97-1", "vm-goodbye") in new stack
>     -- Playing 'vm-goodbye' (language 'en')
>  == Spawn extension (default, 3378, 4) exited non-zero on 'Zap/97-1'
>     -- Executing Hangup("Zap/97-1", "") in new stack
>   == Spawn extension (default, h, 1) exited non-zero on 'Zap/97-1'
>     -- Hungup 'Zap/97-1'
>
>
> Any ideas as to why I can't hear anything? Thanks!
>
> Martin Smith, Systems Developer
> martins at bebr.ufl.edu
> Bureau of Economic and Business Research
> University of Florida
> (352) 392-0171 Ext. 221 
>
>
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Change:

2. Festival(Hello Asterisk caller. How is your day?)

To:

2. Festival("Hello Asterisk caller. How is your day?")

You cannot have spaces without quotes.

Hope this helps,
Anthony