Answer then festival does not work

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

Asterisk 1.2.16
Sip call with a direct route to custom-app based on CID.

exten => s,1,Answer
;exten => s,n,PlayBack(recorded)
exten => s,n,Festival(‘Please be advised. Recording of this conference has been enabled.’)

If I do a channel answer and then directly a festival t2v the program hangs and does nothing after the answer. If I add a wait(2) after the answer it still hangs. If do something major like a playback, it then runs festival just fine.

Any ideas?

2

No really… does anyone have an idea? Or is no one interested because it is 1.2.x asterisk???

Bump.

3

have you tried flite, its “lighter” and faster than festival

just an idea

Ian

4

Is it your theory that festival will not run directly after an ‘Answer’ because it is slower? Then why is slower NOT an issue if I execute a ‘PlayBack’ first?? I am tring to understand.

5

you must run festival_server script before…have you done it?

6

first off … festival works. It for some reason will hang the script if it follows an ‘exten => s,1,Answer’. If I use a ‘Wait(2)’ after the ‘Answer’, it will hang.

script hangs:

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,Festival(‘Please be advised. Recording of this conference has been enabled.’)

or

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,Wait(2)
exten => s,n,Festival(‘Please be advised. Recording of this conference has been enabled.’)

If I do something like:

exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,n,PlayBack(recorded)
exten => s,n,Festival(‘Please be advised. Recording of this conference has been enabled.’)

The script works fine and festival works. Now… why does the script hang in the first scenario.