From c984a64f3eb84b7ceba02e8351a6b537d882d04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Spencer Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:31:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation fixes (bug #1439) git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@2722 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3 --- contrib/README.festival | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/README.festival b/contrib/README.festival index 469f4a1683..a6a7c067ca 100755 --- a/contrib/README.festival +++ b/contrib/README.festival @@ -11,10 +11,18 @@ You need : 1.4.2 RELEASE are included. The patch adds a new command to festival (asterisk_tts). -2) My patches to asterisk that provide variable substitution and quoting to -the Asterisk Extension Logic. This is not really a requirement, but without -this, app_festival is mostly useless (you could very well use prerecorded -voices for static information). + +2) You may wish to obtain and install the asterisk-perl +module by James Golovich , 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 :