Originate call using Festival

Asterisk Asterisk APIs
1

I use the Asterisk-Manager package for NodeJs

and have a string that needs to get passed to Festival. I want to originate a call and Festival should translate the string into spoken text.

My current syntax

    ami.action({
        action: 'originate',
        channel: 'SIP/mySipUserUsingPhoner',
        application: `Festival("${announcement}")`
    }, (err, res) => {
        console.log(err);
        console.log(res);
    });

The response object returns me this

{ response: 'Success',
  actionid: '1556537544484',
  message: 'Originate successfully queued' }

but I only get beep sounds for three seconds. How can I originate a call using Festival?

The CLI returns

WARNING[24853]: pbx.c:7615 pbx_outgoing_exec: No such application ‘Festival(" my text to be spoken")’

2

Step 1. Install and/or load the module for it to work.

3

I don’t know that library, but the action defines the data being passed to the application as a separate field[1]. Not as part of application.

[1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+16+ManagerAction_Originate

4

Calling the application from the dialplan works fine

5

I changed my code to

    ami.action({
        action: 'originate',
        channel: 'SIP/mySipUserUsingPhoner',
        application: 'Festival',
        data: announcement
    }, (err, res) => {
        console.log(err);
        console.log(res);
    });

and I get no error anymore. But I still get beep sounds only.

6

Oh sorry, I missed it before.

You can’t call the Application in full on one line. You need to use the data: setting. Where the application data goes.

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/ManagerAction_Originate

7

Well after restarting the machine we got it working … So my updated code in the reply to jcolp works …

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