That was exactly it for the record.
#which text2wave
# <-- before apt-get install festival
#which text2wave
/usr/bin/text2wave
# echo 'This is an example of using tts_commandline' | text2wave -f
8000 > test.wav
# file test.wav
test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16
bit, mono 8000 Hz
# ls -l test.wav
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60208 Mar 4 06:44 test.wav
And the freeswitch debug log that shows it works:
EXECUTE [depth=0] sofia/internal/102@66.151.243.45
speak(tts_commandline|text2wave|This is an example of using
tts_commandline)
2021-03-04 06:59:14.305216 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:3023 OPEN TTS
tts_commandline
2021-03-04 06:59:14.305216 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:3033 Raw
Codec Activated
2021-03-04 06:59:14.305216 [DEBUG] mod_tts_commandline.c:160
Executing: echo 'This is an example of using tts_commandline' |
text2wave -f 8000 >
'/tmp/05e71313-2a4d-48ce-a1e9-84600859112f.tmp.wav'
2021-03-04 06:59:15.545212 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2741 Speaking
text: This is an example of using tts_commandline
2021-03-04 06:59:15.545212 [DEBUG] sofia.c:7326 Channel
sofia/internal/102@66.151.243.45 entering state [ready][200]
2021-03-04 06:59:15.565210 [DEBUG] switch_rtp.c:7759 Correct audio
ip/port confirmed.
2021-03-04 06:59:19.305225 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2905 done speaking text
Thanks for the help.
The reason I tried to start with tts_commandine is I have been
struggling for a couple of weeks to get MRCP to produce something
useful so I thought I would try something simpler and I could swear
mod_tts_commandline was listed as a requirement.
Working with mod_unimrcp should be simple.
But maybe this can be of help:
It is a node.js app that I wrote to test mrcp servers.
I don't know which MRCP server you are using (maybe unimrcp?).
But you could make requests directly to it and check if it's working as expected without having to deal with FS.
Then once things are cleared up you can work on the FS configuration.
Also, if you want to get down checking SIP/MRCP messages, you could use this sngrep fork:
(this is a patch that I wrote to support MRCP on sngrep, but this will not be merged to upstream as sngrep main branch is only accepting bug fixes right now:
https://github.com/irontec/sngrep/pull/346) so you would need to build it yourself.