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[brandoncoale at sbcglo...]

Hello,

I recently purchased the Cepstral 6 text-to-speech engine (swift), and
am now wondering if I should have bought something else. I would like
to use Cepstral text to speech like some people use the Festival() or
Flite() applications. For example, when I do a "core show application
flite" at the CLI, flite is available to me:

localhost*CLI> core show application flite
-= Info about application 'Flite' =-
[Synopsis]
Say text to the user, using Flite TTS engine
[Description]
Flite(text[,intkeys]): This will invoke the Flite TTS engine, send a
text string,
get back the resulting waveform and play it to the user, allowing any
given interrupt
keys to immediately terminate and return the value, or 'any' to allow
any number back.


I would like to do the same thing with Cepstral, and am trying to use
app_swift available from:

https://github.com/darrensessions/app_swift

However, I am not able to get app_swift to compile. I am running
Asterisk 11.6.0 and CentOS 6.4 64-bit.

I am wondering if anyone else out there has been able to get app_swift
working with Asterisk 11 and could share any tricks they used to get it
installed?

Brandon

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[asterisk-03 at jeremyk...]

On 1/8/2014 9:12 PM, Brandon Coale wrote:

[brandoncoale at sbcglo...]

Jeremy,
 
Thanks very much.  I admit I am new to compiling software on Linux.  I am not sure where I would grab the configure?  By make I believe you mean the Makefile that I downloaded from https://github.com/darrensessions/app_swift?
 
I went ahead and opened a support ticket with Cepstral, so we can wait until I hear back from them if you want.  If we come up with a solution, I will write back with what they come up with.
 
Thanks again,
Brandon


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From: Jeremy Kister <asterisk-03@jeremykister.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] help with Cepstral 6 and Asterisk 11

On 1/8/2014 9:12 PM, Brandon Coale wrote:

[brandoncoale at sbcglo...]

On 1/9/2014 12:12 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:

[webaccounts at jgoettg...]

Wouldn't it be easier in your case to pay somebody to do the job? I doubt that it would take
more than a couple of minutes to compile, install, and configure the package. Maybe some things
need to get adjusted as the author has abandoned the project (at least there is no longer a
project web page) and the latest sources are about 2 years old.

Building from sources is not that difficult, but if you don't have a proper configure script you
are responsible that all prerequisites are met, which can be time consuming if you don't know
your distro well enough. Here, there is no configure script and some things, which might be
invalid for your machine, are hand coded inside the Makefile. Nothing spectacular, but you could
end up asking a lot more questions that have nothing to do with asterisk.

jg

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[jkillen at allamerican...]

Another option is to use an MRCP server like UniMRCP along with the Cepstral plugin. One very nice thing about this approach is that there is less 'cepstral version' <-> 'asterisk version' dependency, which is a problem with the current app_swift module (each app_swift version is designed to work on specifically one version of asterisk and one version of cepstral).

Cepstral provides details here: http://www.cepstral.com/en/telephony/mrcp
Information on the open-source uniMRCP can be found here: http://www.unimrcp.org/
Information for connecting asterisk to uniMRCP can be found here (although it seems to be having issues ATM): http://code.google.com/p/unimrcp/wiki/asteriskUniMRCP



-Justin

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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 1:48 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] help with Cepstral 6 and Asterisk 11

Wouldn't it be easier in your case to pay somebody to do the job? I doubt that it would take
more than a couple of minutes to compile, install, and configure the package. Maybe some things
need to get adjusted as the author has abandoned the project (at least there is no longer a
project web page) and the latest sources are about 2 years old.

Building from sources is not that difficult, but if you don't have a proper configure script you
are responsible that all prerequisites are met, which can be time consuming if you don't know
your distro well enough. Here, there is no configure script and some things, which might be
invalid for your machine, are hand coded inside the Makefile. Nothing spectacular, but you could
end up asking a lot more questions that have nothing to do with asterisk.

jg

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[brandoncoale at sbcglo...]

On 1/9/2014 12:12 PM, Jeremy Kister wrote:

[brandoncoale at sbcglo...]

On 1/13/2014 6:13 PM, Justin Killen wrote: