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| app_festival is an application that allows one to send text-to-speech commands
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| to a background festival server, and to obtain the resulting waveform which
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| gets sent down to the respective channel. app_festival also employs a waveform 
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| cache, so invariant text-to-speech strings ("Please press 1 for instructions") 
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| do not need to be dynamically generated all the time. 
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| 
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| You need : 
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| 
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| 1) festival, patched to produce 8khz waveforms on output. Patch for Festival
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| 1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival 
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| (asterisk_tts). 
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| 
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| It is possible to run Festival without patches in the source-code. Just
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| add this to your /etc/festival.scm or /usr/share/festival/festival/scm:
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| 
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|     (define (tts_textasterisk string mode)
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|     "(tts_textasterisk STRING MODE)
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|     Apply tts to STRING. This function is specifically designed for
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|     use in server mode so a single function call may synthesize the string.
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|     This function name may be added to the server safe functions."
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|     (let ((wholeutt (utt.synth (eval (list 'Utterance 'Text string)))))
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|     (utt.wave.resample wholeutt 8000)
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|     (utt.wave.rescale wholeutt 5)
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|     (utt.send.wave.client wholeutt)))
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| 
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| [See the comment with subject "Using Debian
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|  festival >= 1.4.3-15 (no recompiling needed!)" on
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|  http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+festival+installation for the
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|  original mentioning of it]
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| 
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| 2) You may wish to obtain and install the asterisk-perl
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| module by James Golovich <james@gnuinter.net>, from 
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| either CPAN, or his site: http://asterisk.gnuinter.net,
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| as this contains a good example of how variable text
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| can be tts'd via asterisk, namely the examples/tts-*.agi
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| files there. It has been noted that the current expression
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| evaluation capabilities of asterisk are not best suited
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| for the generation and manipulation of text. AGI scripting
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| can be ideal for these sorts of needs. For simpler usage,
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| fixed, pre-recorded messages may be more amenable for your
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| purposes.
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| 
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| 3) Before running asterisk, you have to run festival-server with a command 
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| like : 
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| 
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| /usr/local/festival/bin/festival --server > /dev/null 2>&1 &
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