asterisk users - Dec 2011 - 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=en&q=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.

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Lefteris Zafiris
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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
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  Subject: [asterisk-users] AGI script that uses google's text to speech
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  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=en&q=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.

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  Lefteris Zafiris



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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=en&q=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
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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.

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Lefteris Zafiris