On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Avi Marcus <avi@avimarcus.net> wrote:

The usual method is to create phrases for everything you want.
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Speech_Phrase_Management with the "play-file" function.

But if you frequently have things SAY is great for - numbers and spelling out words - then you can modify as MC said.

-Avi

Thanks Avi, that's what I was getting at. You use the "say" app to let FS do the work of how to pronounce something, e.g.:

<action application="say" data="en number pronounced 1234"/>
Caller hears "one thousand, two hundred, thirty-four"

<action application="say" data="en number iterated 1234"/>
Caller hears "one two three four"

You don't need the say app to do what you are trying to do. You can use just the playback app, with or without phrase macros:

<action application="playback" data="/path/to/cool_bdf_sound.wav"/>

or

<action application="playback" data="phrase:my_cool_phrase:arg1:arg2"/>

Then you need a phrase defined. I use conf/lang/en/ivr/custom.xml for my own phrases. E.g.:

<include>
<macro name="my_cool_phrase">
    <input pattern="(.*?):(.*?)">
      <match>
        <action function="play-file" data="$1.wav"/>
        <action function="sleep" data="500"/>
        <action function="play-file" data="$1.wav"/>
      </match>
      <nomatch>
        <action function="play-file" data="/some/other/file.wav"/>
      </nomatch>
    </input>
</macro>
</include>

I hope that makes sense. See pages 115-120 in the bridge book for info on phrase macros and see pages 98,99 for info on the say application.

-MC