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diff --git a/1.2-netsec/contrib/README.festival b/1.2-netsec/contrib/README.festival deleted file mode 100644 index 24912827c..000000000 --- a/1.2-netsec/contrib/README.festival +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ - -app_festival is an application that allows one to send text-to-speech commands -to a background festival server, and to obtain the resulting waveform which -gets sent down to the respective channel. app_festival also employs a waveform -cache, so invariant text-to-speech strings ("Please press 1 for instructions") -do not need to be dynamically generated all the time. - -You need : - -1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival -1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival -(asterisk_tts). - -It is possible to run Festival without patches in the source-code. Just -add this to your /etc/festival.scm or /usr/share/festival/festival/scm: - - (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))) - -[See the comment with subject "Using Debian - festival >= 1.4.3-15 (no recompiling needed!)" on - http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+festival+installation for the - original mentioning of it] - -2) You may wish to obtain and install the asterisk-perl -module by James Golovich <james@gnuinter.net>, from -either CPAN, or his site: http://asterisk.gnuinter.net, -as this contains a good example of how variable text -can be tts'd via asterisk, namely the examples/tts-*.agi -files there. It has been noted that the current expression -evaluation capabilities of asterisk are not best suited -for the generation and manipulation of text. AGI scripting -can be ideal for these sorts of needs. For simpler usage, -fixed, pre-recorded messages may be more amenable for your -purposes. - -3) Before running asterisk, you have to run festival-server with a command -like : - -/usr/local/festival/bin/festival --server > /dev/null 2>&1 & |