[asterisk-users] asterisk with festival facing problem

[Lee Jenkins]

Cheikhou DIAW wrote:
> hi List,
> i've been trying to get festival work on my 1.4.4 *box for the last 3days,
> i've used the tutorial on this page 
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Festival+installation 
> <http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Festival+installation>
> with exactly the same line in my dialplan just to make a test
> 

I would recommend looking at Cepstal.  The voices are cheap, like 
$30(US) per voice per server.  The quality is great and there are a 
number of third party libraries that abstract the use of the Cepstral 
Swift engine.  Or you can just use the system command to create the 
sound files to play.

http://www.cepstral.com

I wrote a free AGI application for swift a while back that should work 
ok for you as well:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DTSwift+Cepstral+AGI+Wrapper

There is another one, a direct add-on for Asterisk, that will play the 
cepstral voices directly from a stream instead of first creating a file. 
  I forgot the name/url though.  Hopefully someone will jump in and 
provide that.


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Warm Regards,

Lee