Text to speech from database

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Is this possible with Asterisk?

Asterisk Dials out to PSTN at a predetermined time and date and reads info from MySql database utilizing text to speech?

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[quote=“tbooth”]Is this possible with Asterisk?

Asterisk Dials out to PSTN at a predetermined time and date and reads info from MySql database utilizing text to speech?[/quote]

This is a slam dunk with AGI and Festival. Of course, you’ll have to live with Festival’s pronunciation which isn’t exactly lifelike…

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thanks for the input. I’m assuming thats how the wake up feature works but that dials the extension number. If you know how to dial to the pstn that is what I need to know. I have a friend with an e-bay store and he wants a server to dial out to his customers daily or weekly to let them know that status of their auction items.

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[quote=“hungerbrother”][quote=“tbooth”]Is this possible with Asterisk?

Asterisk Dials out to PSTN at a predetermined time and date and reads info from MySql database utilizing text to speech?[/quote]

This is a slam dunk with AGI and Festival. Of course, you’ll have to live with Festival’s pronunciation which isn’t exactly lifelike…[/quote]

Cepstral has a couple that don’t sound half bad. At least you can demo their available voices online.

cepstral.com/

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Look at voip-info.org/wiki/view/Aste … l+www+demo

if you want to try out the different voices with a running asterisk box. I have it up and running and finally choose for Dianne.

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Could a novice at Asterisk set this up? We need it for a disaster alert system…

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look at this to give you a VERY rough idea of what might be involved:

voip-info.org/wiki/view/aste … figuration

i set up a weather playback script in less than 15 minutes from start to finish, but that was reading the weather from a text file, not a database.

basically, if you can get the database data into a text file (which you could easily do with a shell script in linux), you could use the above setup quite easily.

as for the automated outbound part, there are several ‘wake-up’ scripts (like you had previously mentioned) that could be ported/modified to automate the outbound dialing.

hell, you could even set up a simple shell script to write call files if you needed - it would be simple and fairly crude, but it would work great…

i guess that’s part of the problem - you can do this so many different ways in asterisk, it’s hard to pick one!!!