I use Festival speech synthesis when I configure Asterisk and to debug my dial
plan.
For day to day use I don't use Festival, and as a result I don't want the
Festival server
running all the time so I don't use the festival.conf within asterisk, but I
rather use
macro sayText(text) {
sayTextfile = "/tmp/asterisk${RAND()}";
System(echo "${text}"|/usr/local/bin/newtext2wave -otype ulaw
>${sayTextFile}.ulaw);
Playback(${sayTextFile});
System(rm -f ${sayTextFile}.ulaw);
return;
}
within the dial plan.
The trouble is that text2wave gets a Segmentation fault.
I found an update text2wave that does work referred to in
http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org/howtos/archive/2010/01/22/installing-festival-and
-setting-voice-to-female
the fix is located at
http://irlp.kc6hur.net/downloads/text2wave
