[asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
Hello, version 0.3 of the asterisk-googletts AGI script just got released, most noticeable changes are: The script can now be used to easily build IVRs. Fixed compatibility with asterisk 1.4 and older. Fixed compatibility with older perl versions(5.8.8). Better input handling. The latest release, documentation and dialplan examples can be found here: http://zaf.github.com/asterisk-googletts/ A big thank you to all the users that contributed with feedback, bug reports and suggestions. Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
Hello, when I use the Agi, sometimes not play the phrase: WARNING[30391]: file.c:650 ast_openstream_full: File ggl_U0sBo0 does not exist in any format Regards - Original Message - From: Lefteris Zafiris To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 7:42 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine Hello, I have written an AGI script for asterisk that uses google translate for text to speech synthesis. It supports a variety of different languages, local caching for the voice data and wideband audio. The voice in most languages is female and the quality of the synthesized speech is very high. More info about the script can be found here: http://zaf.github.com/asterisk-googletts/ the first public release ca be obtained here: https://github.com/downloads/zaf/asterisk-googletts/asterisk-googletts-0.2.tar.gz To get a sample of the speech synthesis quality try this link: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=this+is+a+test+for+google+text+to+speech+engine The code is still very young so suggestions, comments and bug reports are more than welcome. -- Lefteris Zafiris -- -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
Hi. Aside from converting spaces to plus signs, you don't encode any special characters before putting them in the URL. It might be safer to run $line through some sort of encoding before calling Google with it, even if most special characters probably don't result in any sound. Google say and if you give it an ampersand, but unescaped you couldn't include that in the string. You may decide to have an option to locally cache pre-produced sound files in case that phrase is used again. Cheers, Kingsley. On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 02:42 +0200, Lefteris Zafiris wrote: Hello, I have written an AGI script for asterisk that uses google translate for text to speech synthesis. It supports a variety of different languages, local caching for the voice data and wideband audio. The voice in most languages is female and the quality of the synthesized speech is very high. More info about the script can be found here: http://zaf.github.com/asterisk-googletts/ the first public release ca be obtained here: https://github.com/downloads/zaf/asterisk-googletts/asterisk-googletts-0.2.tar.gz To get a sample of the speech synthesis quality try this link: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=this+is+a+test+for +google+text+to+speech+engine The code is still very young so suggestions, comments and bug reports are more than welcome. -- Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:43:29 -0500 bakko asannu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, when I use the Agi, sometimes not play the phrase: WARNING[30391]: file.c:650 ast_openstream_full: File ggl_U0sBo0 does not exist in any format Regards Seems like the script failed to convert the mp3 data that gets from google to raw slinear. In that case mpg123 or sox failed to run. It would be very helpful if you could send the full console output with verbosity set to 3. Please reply to my mail address so we don't pollute the list. Thanks for the feedback Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
I personally don't like the use of mpg123 for playback - would prefer use of the internal Playback/background functions. Still seems to be a nice effort though. -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kingsley Tart Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:24 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine Hi. Aside from converting spaces to plus signs, you don't encode any special characters before putting them in the URL. It might be safer to run $line through some sort of encoding before calling Google with it, even if most special characters probably don't result in any sound. Google say and if you give it an ampersand, but unescaped you couldn't include that in the string. You may decide to have an option to locally cache pre-produced sound files in case that phrase is used again. Cheers, Kingsley. On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 02:42 +0200, Lefteris Zafiris wrote: Hello, I have written an AGI script for asterisk that uses google translate for text to speech synthesis. It supports a variety of different languages, local caching for the voice data and wideband audio. The voice in most languages is female and the quality of the synthesized speech is very high. More info about the script can be found here: http://zaf.github.com/asterisk-googletts/ the first public release ca be obtained here: https://github.com/downloads/zaf/asterisk-googletts/asterisk-googletts -0.2.tar.gz To get a sample of the speech synthesis quality try this link: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=this+is+a+test+for +google+text+to+speech+engine The code is still very young so suggestions, comments and bug reports are more than welcome. -- Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:23:59 +
Kingsley Tart kings...@skymarket.co.uk wrote:
Hi. Aside from converting spaces to plus signs, you don't encode any
special characters before putting them in the URL. It might be safer
to run $line through some sort of encoding before calling Google with
it, even if most special characters probably don't result in any
sound. Google say and if you give it an ampersand, but unescaped
you couldn't include that in the string.
You may decide to have an option to locally cache pre-produced sound
files in case that phrase is used again.
Cheers,
Kingsley.
Thanks for the suggestion. Ther's already some sort of input sanitation:
$AGI{arg_1} =~ s/[\\\/|*~^\(\)\[\]\{\}\n\r]/ /g;
that strips most special characters but i guess it needs some more work.
As for the caching the script supports it already, its enabled by
default and controlled by these 2 variables in the script:
$usecache = 1;
$cachedir = /tmp;
Voice data gets stored in the cachedir for future use so we don't have
to fetch it from google each time.
Lefteris Zafiris
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Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:35:21 -0600 Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: I personally don't like the use of mpg123 for playback - would prefer use of the internal Playback/background functions. Still seems to be a nice effort though. mpg123 used to convert the mp3 data that we get from google to wav. The wav file is passed to sox that converts it to raw slinear and then its played back by asterisk using the 'stream file' agi command. I don't really like calling all these system commands but I thought it would be better for the users to have the voice data in sln than mp3 since format_mp3 module isn't available in many installations. Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
This is because you need to add /tmp to the STREAM command, ie: print STREAM FILE /tmp/$tmpname \$intkey\\n; $tmpname seems to not contain the path, so it will look in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds for the file... This at least made it work for me... (After fixing some other things to make it work with asterisk 1.2...) BR, Torbjörn Abrahamsson -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lefteris Zafiris Sent: den 1 december 2011 18:34 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:43:29 -0500 bakko asannu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, when I use the Agi, sometimes not play the phrase: WARNING[30391]: file.c:650 ast_openstream_full: File ggl_U0sBo0 does not exist in any format Regards Seems like the script failed to convert the mp3 data that gets from google to raw slinear. In that case mpg123 or sox failed to run. It would be very helpful if you could send the full console output with verbosity set to 3. Please reply to my mail address so we don't pollute the list. Thanks for the feedback Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:51:21 +0100 Torbjörn Abrahamsson torbjorn.abrahams...@gmail.com wrote: This is because you need to add /tmp to the STREAM command, ie: print STREAM FILE /tmp/$tmpname \$intkey\\n; $tmpname seems to not contain the path, so it will look in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds for the file... This at least made it work for me... (After fixing some other things to make it work with asterisk 1.2...) BR, Torbjörn Abrahamsson $tmpname is supposed to include the full path together with the temp dir since its created with the option 'TMPDIR = 1' during the call of tempfile() and it does so in my system that runs perl 5.14.2. I guess that might not be true for older versions of perl(?) Can you please tell me what version of perl you are using? The oldest perl I can get my hands on is 5.8.8 on RHEL 5.x machines. I will try to test there and see whats going on. Thanks for the feedback. Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
This was run on an Fedora 8 machine, with perl 5.8.8. I also found it odd that the path was not included... // T -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lefteris Zafiris Sent: den 1 december 2011 22:48 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:51:21 +0100 Torbjörn Abrahamsson torbjorn.abrahams...@gmail.com wrote: This is because you need to add /tmp to the STREAM command, ie: print STREAM FILE /tmp/$tmpname \$intkey\\n; $tmpname seems to not contain the path, so it will look in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds for the file... This at least made it work for me... (After fixing some other things to make it work with asterisk 1.2...) BR, Torbjörn Abrahamsson $tmpname is supposed to include the full path together with the temp dir since its created with the option 'TMPDIR = 1' during the call of tempfile() and it does so in my system that runs perl 5.14.2. I guess that might not be true for older versions of perl(?) Can you please tell me what version of perl you are using? The oldest perl I can get my hands on is 5.8.8 on RHEL 5.x machines. I will try to test there and see whats going on. Thanks for the feedback. Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 23:23:56 +0100 Torbjörn Abrahamsson torbjorn.abrahams...@gmail.com wrote: This was run on an Fedora 8 machine, with perl 5.8.8. I also found it odd that the path was not included... // T It seems this is an issue with older versions of perl or at least with 5.8.8. Since this version is used in RHEL/CentOS 5.x that many people run on their servers, this is a serious problem. Changing the way tempfile() is called from: tempfile(ggl_XX, TMPDIR = 1, UNLINK = 1) to: tempfile(ggl_XX, DIR = $tmpdir, UNLINK = 1) seems to address this issue. An updated version including this fix can be obtained here: http://github.com/zaf/asterisk-googletts/tarball/master Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech engine
Hello, I have written an AGI script for asterisk that uses google translate for text to speech synthesis. It supports a variety of different languages, local caching for the voice data and wideband audio. The voice in most languages is female and the quality of the synthesized speech is very high. More info about the script can be found here: http://zaf.github.com/asterisk-googletts/ the first public release ca be obtained here: https://github.com/downloads/zaf/asterisk-googletts/asterisk-googletts-0.2.tar.gz To get a sample of the speech synthesis quality try this link: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=this+is+a+test+for+google+text+to+speech+engine The code is still very young so suggestions, comments and bug reports are more than welcome. -- Lefteris Zafiris -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
