Re: [Asterisk-java-users] Asterisk-java and Text to Speech

[Robert A. <aug...@ya...>]

David,
Great info,
I will try to dig in and see.
Thanks a lot.
robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ast...@li... 
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> Behalf Of David Rudder
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 2:01 PM
> To: ast...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-java-users] Asterisk-java and Text to Speech
> 
> I have not used the Cepstral TTS with Asterisk, but it will 
> almost definitely work using the same strategy as with 
> Festival.  I do this:
>     private char playText (String text) throws AgiException {
>         String soundsDir = "/var/lib/asterisks/sounds/tts/";
>         String text2wavePath = "/usr/bin/text2wave";
>         String waveName = "TTS_"+System.currentTimeMillis();
>         exec("System", "echo '"+text+"'|"+text2wavePath+" -F 
> 8000 -o "+soundsDir+waveName+".wav");
>         char digit = streamFile("tts/"+waveName, "0123456789*#");
>         exec("System", "rm "+soundsDir+waveName+".wav");
>         return digit;
>     }
> 
> Basically, I use the System command to run the text2wave 
> program on the command-line.  Then, I use streamFile to play 
> the new wave file that festival created.  Finally, I delete 
> the created file.  If Cepstral has a command-line 
> application, you can do the same thing.
> 
> If the Cepstral integration has a new AGI command with it, 
> that allows you to run the TTS without an intermediate wave 
> file, it would be nice to be able to use that.  You may be 
> able to use the Exec command.
> 
> -Dave
> 
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