> Also almost forgot. They sell the demo voices on their site for 29.99. > Linux and windows versions. Since I believe what they use is based off > festival, perhaps the voices could be made to plug into the existing > festival plugin for asterisk?
I have been working with app_festival for about a week or so now trying to figure out what is going on with it... The existing app_festival has a serious bug in it that makes it unsuitable for production use. I posted about it before, but the jist is that the more channels that are trying to use app_festival at the same time, the more problems there are -- the channel will abort, and this will result in asterisk abandoning the call. I have tried tracing it with all sorts of things including stepping back through some truly monumental gdb logs. The problem is not on the festival side of things, as the preforking festival keeps up fine with asterisk, and the problem occurs even when using the festival cache (broken in the current code - my patch fixes it) I cannot find the bug after a week of poking at the code. As I intended to use app_festival as a temporary replacement for recorded voice prompts in an AGI application, it was no big deal at first as it works 100% if if you always wait for the speech to finish and only use one channel (fine for testing), but after having the flexibility to do speech synthesis, I can see that it would be a tremendously good application for even the IVR that I am working on... Anyway, I hope this speech project gets off the ground. Staying all OSS is very nice, but after spending a lot of time mucking with it, I'd be easily willing to spend $50 for a great sounding, working solution. I'm still going to be poking at app_festival, though, so if anyone has suggestions or understands some of the internals and wants to work on this with me, please mail me off-list. Having a 100% working and production-ready solution for festival would be good for a number of reasons and I'd like to see this happen too! ~John _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
