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Matthew Jordan 279873e8eb Add admin toggle mute all and participant count menu options to app_confbridge
This patch adds two new menu features to app_confbridge, admin_toggle_menu_
participants and participant_count.  The admin action will globally mute /
unmute all non-admin participants on a converence, while the participant
count simply exposes the existing participant count function to the
conference bridge menu.

This also adds configuration options to change the sound played when the
conference is globally muted / unmuted, as well as the necessary config
hooks to place these functions in the DTMF menus.

(closes issue ASTERISK-18204)
Reported by: Kevin Reeves
Tested by: Matt Jordan
Patches:
  app_confbridge.c.patch.txt, conf_config_parser.c.patch.txt, 
  confbridge.h.patch.txt uploaded by Kevin Reeves (license 6281)

Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/1518/



git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@345560 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
2011-11-17 18:09:13 +00:00
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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 &