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diff --git a/contrib/README.festival b/contrib/README.festival new file mode 100755 index 000000000..56d985e23 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/README.festival @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + +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 +1.4.1 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival +(asterisk_tts). + +2) My patches to asterisk that provide variable substitution and quoting to +the Asterisk Extension Logic. This is not really a requirement, but without +this, app_festival is mostly useless (you could very well use prerecorded +voices for static information). + +3) Before running asterisk, you have to run festival-server with a command +like : + +/usr/local/festival/bin/festival --server > /dev/null 2>&1 & |