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George Joseph bae3fd04c1 taskprocessor: Enable subsystems and overload by subsystem
To prevent one subsystem's taskprocessors from causing others
to stall, new capabilities have been added to taskprocessors.

* Any taskprocessor name that has a '/' will have the part
  before the '/' saved as its "subsystem".
  Examples:
  "sorcery/acl-0000006a" and "sorcery/aor-00000019"
  will be grouped to subsystem "sorcery".
  "pjsip/distributor-00000025" and "pjsip/distributor-00000026"
  will bn grouped to subsystem "pjsip".
  Taskprocessors with no '/' have an empty subsystem.

* When a taskprocessor enters high-water alert status and it
  has a non-empty subsystem, the subsystem alert count will
  be incremented.

* When a taskprocessor leaves high-water alert status and it
  has a non-empty subsystem, the subsystem alert count will be
  decremented.

* A new api ast_taskprocessor_get_subsystem_alert() has been
  added that returns the number of taskprocessors in alert for
  the subsystem.

* A new CLI command "core show taskprocessor alerted subsystems"
  has been added.

* A new unit test was addded.

REMINDER: The taskprocessor code itself doesn't take any action
based on high-water alerts or overloading.  It's up to taskprocessor
users to check and take action themselves.  Currently only the pjsip
distributor does this.

* A new pjsip/global option "taskprocessor_overload_trigger"
  has been added that allows the user to select the trigger
  mechanism the distributor uses to pause accepting new requests.
  "none": Don't pause on any overload condition.
  "global": Pause on ANY taskprocessor overload (the default and
  current behavior)
  "pjsip_only": Pause only on pjsip taskprocessor overloads.

* The core pjsip pool was renamed from "SIP" to "pjsip" so it can
  be properly grouped into the "pjsip" subsystem.

* stasis taskprocessor names were changed to "stasis" as the
  subsystem.

* Sorcery core taskprocessor names were changed to "sorcery" to
  match the object taskprocessors.

Change-Id: I8c19068bb2fc26610a9f0b8624bdf577a04fcd56
2019-02-20 10:23:26 -07:00
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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 &