[Freeswitch-users] [Freeswitch-dev] C SAY API

Sun Dec 17 07:47:18 PST 2006

I like the concept but I don't think you want to go all the way down to storing each word.. Since the phrases will need to be localized anyway you can simply use the sequencer in your example to speak "you-have.wav" & 1000 & "messages.wav" for english and 1000 & "messages-you-have.wav" for tibetian (or whatever). The sequencer would do more than just describe the order of the phrases but also the actual phrases files to use. This gives you maximum flexability in the sentance construction while not devolving to having to record every word separately.

Michael B. Murdock

-----Original Message-----
From: Kannaiyan Natesan [mailto:gbpnkans at gmail.com]
Sent: Sun 12/17/2006 6:10 AM
To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
Cc: freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] [Freeswitch-dev] C SAY API

Hi Matt,

It is easy with the architecture which i defined before.

[voicemail.txt]  (forvoicemail app)
messageleft=You have 1000 messages

[voicemail.txt]
messageleft=1000 messages you have

Just change only the file in the sequencer. The whole application will
behave differently.

Just store only the files.

you.have
have.wav
messages.wav

Rest the system will read from the sequencer and play the respective files.

With Brian West and Anthony written complex code in asterisk, this is not a
big deal to implement for them.

Thanks to Anthony, for atleast asking us for the opinion.

Regards,
Kannaiyan

On 12/17/06, Matt Porter <mporter at voice3g.com> wrote:
>
>  You are really going to need some feedback about this one.
> Its been a terribly long time, and i have forgotten most of the issues we
> faced..
> but when we ported a unified messaging product many years ago to some of
> the eastern languages.  It was almost impossible to abstract this concept
> out.
>
> Abstracting something like speaking a URL, Phone number, Numeric string is
> perfectly attainable...
> but constructing a useful working sentence is much more complicated..
>
> given "You have 1000 messages", in english.
>
>
> may need to say "1000 messages you have", before it makes any sense in
> Chinese or Piglatin or whatever.
>
>
> In which case, you end up having to write seperate IVR code for each
> language anyway.  and having a "multi-lingular say API" is of extremely
> limited usefulness.
>
> I am not bilingual.. heck i never did any good in English class either.
> Im not trying to throw poo on the idea..  just skeptical about how useful
> this may turn out, for anything but a handful of commonly constructed
> languages.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Nikolay Kolev <me at nikolay.com>
> *To:* freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org ;
> freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 16, 2006 6:47 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] [Freeswitch-dev] C SAY API
>
>  The idea is great!
>
>
>
> OpenPBX seems to have one something similar, but it's unfortunately GPL.
>
>
>
> BTW, SSM_ITTERATED is misspelled. What would be the difference between
> SSM_ITERATED and SSM_PRONOUNCED?
>
>
>
> Nikolay Kolev
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Anthony Minessale [mailto:anthmct at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 15, 2006 3:09 PM
> *To:* freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org;
> freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> *Subject:* [Freeswitch-dev] C SAY API
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm working on a muiti-lingual say api for ivr programmers to be able
>
> to generate audio for saying numbers, counting items or expressing amounts
> of things such as currency.  I'd like some input from anyone who has some
> ideas
>
> on how to make sure we cover all bases.
>
>
>
> The basic idea is that we will have an api where each
> new language/implementation would provide it's own version of this function.
>
>
>
> switch_status_t say(char *tosay,
>                     switch_say_gender_t gender,
>                     switch_say_type_t type,
>                     switch_say_method_t method,
>                     switch_input_callback_function_t dtmf_callback,
>                     void *buf,
>                     uint32_t buflen);
>
> The enums are described in http://www.freeswitch.org/eg/say_api.c
>
>
>
> the idea would be something like
>
>
>
> switch_say_handle_t *en;
>
>
>
> en = switch_say_load("en");
>
>
>
> switch_ivr_play_file(session, NULL, "/sounds/youhave.wav", NULL, NULL,
> NULL, 0);
>
> en->say("1000", SSG_ANY, SSM_PRONOUNCED, SST_MESSAGES, NULL, NULL, 0);
>
> switch_ivr_play_file(session, NULL, "/sounds/msgs.wav", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> 0);
>
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> Anthony Minessale II
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