If you break and store everything as separate words, then you’ll be ignoring the intonation.

I think there should be a table that maps phrases (a sequence of words) to a wave file. The matching algorithm should always try to find the longest phrase. This way you can improve the quality by simply recording additional phrases. Of course, the phrases should be language-specific.

Probably there could be another function like this:

            say_sentence_text(“”en”, “voice”, You have <messages>{0}</messages> new messages as of <datetime>{1}</datetime>”, “10”, “12/18/2006 10:00 AM”);

But this is still language specific. Probably there could be another table that has the sentence pattern like above with some alpha-numeric ID (one map per language) and then the say_setence function can take either sentence ID or sentence pattern with a list of parameters like this:

            say_sentence(“en”, “voice”, “vmail.new_messages”, “10”, “12/18/2006 10:00 AM”);

Nikolay

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From: Kannaiyan Natesan [mailto:gbpnkans@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 5:29 PM
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] [Freeswitch-dev] C SAY API

That applies how you want it to proceed with the preprocessor. Supply the digits to the preprocessor and it will give the list of words or filenames to sequence.

1400

we may need output,

one thousand four hundred
one four zero zero

It is upto the user to choose it.

Also with the API,

switch_channel_set_variable(channel, "language", "en");

switch_channel_set_variable(channel, "language", "en","voice");

voice - indicates whose voice  set to select



Regards,
Kannaiyan

On 12/18/06, Anthony Minessale <anthmct@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  
> pronounced would be like
> for 1400
>  
> pronounced would be:
>  
> one thousand, four hundred
>  
> iterated would be:
>  
> one, four, zero, zero
>  
> this could also possibly apply to dates etc
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> The idea is great!
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>  
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> OpenPBX seems to have one something similar, but it's unfortunately GPL.
>
>  
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> BTW, SSM_ITTERATED is misspelled. What would be the difference between
> SSM_ITERATED and SSM_PRONOUNCED?
>
>  
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> Nikolay Kolev
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> From: Anthony Minessale [mailto: anthmct@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: freeswitch-dev@lists.freeswitch.org ;
> freeswitch-users@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
>  
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> on how to make sure we cover all bases.
>  
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>  
>  
>
> The basic idea is that we will have an api where each new
> language/implementation would provide it's own version of this function.
>  
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>  
>  
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> 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
>  
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>  
>  
>
> the idea would be something like
>  
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> switch_say_handle_t *en;
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>  
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> en = switch_say_load("en");
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>  
>  
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> switch_ivr_play_file(session, NULL, "/sounds/youhave.wav", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> 0);
>  
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> en->say("1000", SSG_ANY, SSM_PRONOUNCED, SST_MESSAGES, NULL, NULL, 0);
>  
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> switch_ivr_play_file(session, NULL, "/sounds/msgs.wav", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> 0);
>  
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>  
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> Thoughts?
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>  
>  
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