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I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval "(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4)" -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while

...n Linux Mag. I gotta say I'm *very* intersted in the project and will be doing lots of reading shortly. A couble quick questions first... How suitable is Asterisk for use as an IVR providing callers with textual data out of a database? Can it be combined easily with something like Festival (festvox.org) to read text to callers? Anybody doing anything like this already? Can Asterisk be used to create applications that initiate outbound calls based on timers or other events and use the IVR to play messages and collect responses? Think automation of alert notifications. i.e. "Hello. The...

Following the installation directions on the wiki, I got festival built and installed. However, when I hit it from my dialplan, I get: Feature Token_Method not defined I found only one reference to this error message in the archives and there was no solution... Thanks! -Michael

Hey All, Thought I'd take a bash at trying to get Festival to work here on my lab system with the aim of using it to create our IVR menu prompts. I've spent most of the afternoon searching through the Wiki, the Festival website and Google and I've got a couple of questions. First one is that the 'Asterisk+festival+installation' page on the Wiki mentions the RedHat 9 RPMs

I have a similar situation here, I want to include TTS in my asterisk IVR system. Could someone give suggestion(s) please, I prefer open-source thanks in advance! Chatila, A. C. P. O. Box 365, Kihesa Street, Njombe, Tanzania. *Mob:* +255 765 154 235 *Whatsapp:* +255 653 258 608 *Website:* chax.me.tz On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:

I have loaded festival-1.4.3 patched with the 1.4.3.diff file. Festival source is in /usr/src/festival dir. When I try to use it I get this from asterisk: -- Executing Answer("SIP/chad-57a4", "") in new stack -- Executing Festival("SIP/chad-57a4", ""I am talking"") in new stack == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/festival.conf': Found