I have a different problem, but you might end up using the same "solution" as I did. I wanted to change to the cmu_us_slt_arctic_hks voice (which sounds AMAZING to me.. way better than what AT&T wants 300 bucks for), but no matter what I did, I couldn't get Asterisk to work with it. So I am using a bash script to generate the file and then have asterisk play it.
something like: exten => s,4,System(sayit "${CIDNAME} calling from ${CIDINFO}" cidinfo) ; spoken txt in quotes, then filename exten => s,5,Wait(2) ; or some propmt.. just so the system has time to make the file. exten => s,6,Playback(cidinfo) My Bash sux, but this works for me /#!/bin/bash/ *echo* $1 *|* text2wave -o /tmp/work.wav -otype wav normalize -g 6db /tmp/work.wav *sox* /tmp/work.wav -r 8000 /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/$2.gsm resample *rm* /tmp/work.wav Text2wave does have the capability to output to ulaw (gsm too I think), but they were too quiet for me so I decided to output wavs so I could normalize them and then convert them to gsm with sox. There are probably better ways, but everything works for me now and I have the voice I want :D Kris Michael Welter wrote: > I'm attempting to use Festival with Asterisk on an x86_64 system. > This IVR application works ok on a P4 system. > > I'm using the FC3 x86_64 distro on a single processor Opteron system. > Festival by itself (using the command line and speakers) seems to work > ok, and Asterisk without Festival works ok. When the Asterisk > dialplan calls Festival, however, Festival reports a disconnect and > Asterisk's Festival command does not complete. Later, when I shut down > the system for reboot, I get a kernel panic. > > I've tried both the FC4 Festival rpm as well as the source download > from festvox.org. I modify the siteinit.scm file as per the wiki > page, and I use the stock festival.conf file in Asterisk. > > Has anyone experienced this behavior, and is there a workaround? > > Thanks, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users