August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
20h 33m
English
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Name
Festival() — Uses the Festival text-to-speech engine to read text to the caller
Synopsis
Festival(text[,intkeys])
Connects to the locally running Festival server, sends
it the text specified by text, and plays
the resulting sound file back to the user. This application allows the
caller to press a key (specified by
intkeys) to immediately stop the playback
and return the value of intkeys. If
intkeys is set to any, Festival() will send control of the channel
to the extension entered by the user.
See Chapter 14 for more in-depth information on using Festival with Asterisk and the README.festival file located in the contrib/ subdirectory of the Asterisk source.
You must start the Festival server before starting Asterisk, and
you must use the Answer() application to answer the
channel before calling Festival().
exten => 123,1,Answer()
exten => 123,2,Festival('This is sample speech from Festival',#)