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Matthew Jordan 54803338b4 Always install safe_asterisk; add configuration file support
This patch modifies the behavior of safe_asterisk in two ways:
(1) It modifies the Asterisk Makefile such that safe_asterisk is always
    installed on a 'make install'. This was done as bugfixes in the
    safe_asterisk script were not applied in previous version of Asterisk
    without first removing the old version of the script.
(2) In order to keep a newly installed version of safe_asterisk from impacting
    local modifications, a new config file - safe_asterisk.conf.sample - has
    been provided. Settings that were previously modified in safe_asterisk can
    be set there instead.

(closes issue ASTERISK-21965)
Reported by: Jeremy Kister
patches:
  safe_asterisk.patch uploaded by jkister (License 6232)


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@394939 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
2013-07-21 18:12:00 +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 &