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George Joseph ef4deb8ecd debug_utilities: Add ast_logescalator
The escalator works by creating a set of startup commands in cli.conf
that set up logger channels and issue the debug commands for the
subsystems specified.  If asterisk is running when it is executed,
the same commands will be issued to the running instance.  The original
cli.conf is saved before any changes are made and can be restored by
executing '$prog --reset'.

The log output will be stored in...
$astlogdir/message.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/debug.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/dtmf.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/fax.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/security.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/pjsip_history.$uniqueid
$astlogdir/sip_history.$uniqueid

Some minor tweaks were made to chan_sip, and res_pjsip_history
so their history output could be send to a log channel as packets
are captured.

A minor tweak was also made to manager so events are output to verbose
when "manager set debug on" is issued.

Change-Id: I799f8e5013b86dc5282961b27383d134bf09e543
2017-01-27 15:10:02 -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 &