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George Joseph 47474cfd54 debug_utilities: Create the ast_coredumper utility
This utility allows easy manipulation of asterisk coredumps.

* Configurable search paths and patterns for existing coredumps
* Can generate a consistent coredump from the running instance
* Can dump the lock_infos table from a coredump
* Dumps backtraces to separate files...
  - thread apply 1 bt full -> <coredump>.thread1.txt
  - thread apply all bt -> <coredump>.brief.txt
  - thread apply all bt full -> <coredump>.full.txt
  - lock_infos table -> <coredump>.locks.txt
* Can tarball corefiles and optionally delete them after processing
* Can tarball results files and optionally delete them after processing
* Converts ':' in coredump and results file names '-' to facilitate
  uploading.  Jira for instance, won't accept file names with colons
  in them.

Tested on Fedora24+, Ubuntu14+, Debian6+, CentOS6+ and FreeBSD9+[1].

[1] For *BSDs, the "devel/gdb" package might have to be installed to
get a recent gdb.  The utility will check all instances of gdb
it finds in $PATH and if one isn't found that can run python, it
prints a friendly error.

Change-Id: I935d37ab9db85ef923f32b05579897f0893d33cd
2017-01-11 12:07:33 -06:00
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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 &