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Alexei Gradinari 403b63571c res_pjsip_mwi: fix unsolicited mwi blocks PJSIP stack
The PJSIP taskprocessors could be overflowed on startup
if there are many (thousands) realtime endpoints
configured with unsolicited mwi.
The PJSIP stack could be totally unresponsive for a few minutes
after boot completed.

This patch creates a separate PJSIP serializers pool for mwi
and makes unsolicited mwi use serializers from this pool.
This patch also adds 2 new global options to tune taskprocessor
alert levels: 'mwi_tps_queue_high' and 'mwi_tps_queue_low'.

This patch also adds new global option 'mwi_disable_initial_unsolicited'
to disable sending unsolicited mwi to all endpoints on startup.
If disabled then unsolicited mwi will start processing
on next endpoint's contact update.

ASTERISK-26230 #close

Change-Id: I4c8ecb82c249eb887930980a800c9f87f28f861a
2016-08-08 13:57:58 -05:00
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app_festival is an application that allows one to send text-to-speech commands
to a background festival server, and to obtain the resulting waveform which
gets sent down to the respective channel. app_festival also employs a waveform 
cache, so invariant text-to-speech strings ("Please press 1 for instructions") 
do not need to be dynamically generated all the time. 

You need : 

1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival
1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
(asterisk_tts). 

It is possible to run Festival without patches in the source-code. Just
add this to your /etc/festival.scm or /usr/share/festival/festival/scm:

    (define (tts_textasterisk string mode)
    "(tts_textasterisk STRING MODE)
    Apply tts to STRING. This function is specifically designed for
    use in server mode so a single function call may synthesize the string.
    This function name may be added to the server safe functions."
    (let ((wholeutt (utt.synth (eval (list 'Utterance 'Text string)))))
    (utt.wave.resample wholeutt 8000)
    (utt.wave.rescale wholeutt 5)
    (utt.send.wave.client wholeutt)))

[See the comment with subject "Using Debian
 festival >= 1.4.3-15 (no recompiling needed!)" on
 http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+festival+installation for the
 original mentioning of it]

2) You may wish to obtain and install the asterisk-perl
module by James Golovich <james@gnuinter.net>, from 
either CPAN, or his site: http://asterisk.gnuinter.net,
as this contains a good example of how variable text
can be tts'd via asterisk, namely the examples/tts-*.agi
files there. It has been noted that the current expression
evaluation capabilities of asterisk are not best suited
for the generation and manipulation of text. AGI scripting
can be ideal for these sorts of needs. For simpler usage,
fixed, pre-recorded messages may be more amenable for your
purposes.

3) Before running asterisk, you have to run festival-server with a command 
like : 

/usr/local/festival/bin/festival --server > /dev/null 2>&1 &