cepstral problem

stephen at stephenjc

11 Aug 2010 11 Aug '10

7:28 p.m.

I'm working with cepstral support and they seem to have no idea. Does any one know why cepstral might produce no audio on a cent os 5.5 machine. Its works fine on another box of mine. Thanks, Stephen C -All of my email addresses go to the same place -Save Paper, think before you print

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Phone

7 Dec 7 Dec

9:12 p.m.

Just wondering if you have had any luck in resolving this issue. We are running Cent 5.5 on FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.head (git-8825b6e 2010-11-28 17-15-39 -0500) with Cepstral 5.1 with the Callie voice. We have good audio for a short period of time, then suddenly the audio is gone. Watching the logs, it show that it is trying to play the correct TTS, but it is silent. We have tried to unload and reload mod_cepstral, but the only way we have been able to restore the audio is with a FreeSWITCH restart. These voices sound good, but with these issues, it is really not useable. Any Ideas? Thanks stephen at stephenjc wrote:

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I'm working with cepstral support and they seem to have no idea. Does any one know why cepstral might produce no audio on a cent os 5.5 machine. Its works fine on another box of mine.

Thanks, Stephen C -All of my email addresses go to the same place -Save Paper, think before you print

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Michael Collins

9:17 p.m.

Can you try the mod_tts_commandline way of doing it? The wiki talks about using Cepstral IIRC. -MC On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Phone <phone.bytes@gmail.com> wrote:

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Just wondering if you have had any luck in resolving this issue.

We are running Cent 5.5 on FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.head (git-8825b6e 2010-11-28 17-15-39 -0500) with Cepstral 5.1 with the Callie voice.

We have good audio for a short period of time, then suddenly the audio is gone. Watching the logs, it show that it is trying to play the correct TTS, but it is silent.

We have tried to unload and reload mod_cepstral, but the only way we have been able to restore the audio is with a FreeSWITCH restart.

These voices sound good, but with these issues, it is really not useable.

Any Ideas? Thanks

stephen at stephenjc wrote:

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I'm working with cepstral support and they seem to have no idea. Does any one know why cepstral might produce no audio on a cent os 5.5 machine. Its works fine on another box of mine.

Thanks, Stephen C -All of my email addresses go to the same place -Save Paper, think before you print

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phone.bytes

11 Dec 11 Dec

8:04 a.m.

okay MC, mod_tts_commandline has run for a several days without a problem. Good. However, now we are trying to get this to speak from a text file instead of putting text on the command line. Cepstral Swift has a -f option to do this, but it does not work here. I have looked through the source, and am wondering if this is not supported in this mod. Here is a partial trace that I think supports my conclusions below. EXECUTE FreeTDM/1:1/7878030 speak(tts_commandline|Callie|-f/tmp/test.txt) 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2237 OPEN TTS tts_commandline 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2246 Raw Codec Activated 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] mod_tts_commandline.c:147 Executing: swift -p audio/sampling-rate=8000 -n 'Callie' '-f/tmp/test.txt' -o '/tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav' 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [ERR] mod_sndfile.c:194 Error Opening File [/tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav] [System error : No such file or directory.] 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [ERR] mod_tts_commandline.c:157 Failed to open file: /tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:1935 Speaking text: -f/tmp/test.txt 2010-12-11 00:26:59.097509 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2127 done speaking text It seems to almost build the swift command correctly. However, the -f options is inside the single quotes, instead of outside of them like the -o (output file) is. I don't think it is finding the .txt file, as the log later shows that it is trying to speak the filename including the -f option, instead of the contents of the file. What do you think? Thanks On 12/7/2010 2:17 PM, Michael Collins wrote:

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Can you try the mod_tts_commandline way of doing it? The wiki talks about using Cepstral IIRC. -MC

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Phone <phone.bytes@gmail.com <mailto:phone.bytes@gmail.com>> wrote:

Just wondering if you have had any luck in resolving this issue.

We are running Cent 5.5 on FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.head (git-8825b6e 2010-11-28 17-15-39 -0500) with Cepstral 5.1 with the Callie voice.

We have good audio for a short period of time, then suddenly the audio is gone. Watching the logs, it show that it is trying to play the correct TTS, but it is silent.

We have tried to unload and reload mod_cepstral, but the only way we have been able to restore the audio is with a FreeSWITCH restart.

These voices sound good, but with these issues, it is really not useable.

Any Ideas? Thanks

Michael Collins

13 Dec 13 Dec

7:58 p.m.

Looking at the source code it seems that this is not currently possible. One might be able to modify the code to do this but it would take a little bit of time. You might want to ask Mathieu Parent (tts_commandline author) if he has any suggestions. Another option, depending upon what the circumstances are, is you could use the "system" command to launch swift -f and record it to a wav, and then use "playback" to play the wav file. -MC On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:04 AM, phone.bytes <phone.bytes@gmail.com> wrote:

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okay MC, mod_tts_commandline has run for a several days without a problem. Good.

However, now we are trying to get this to speak from a text file instead of putting text on the command line. Cepstral Swift has a -f option to do this, but it does not work here.

I have looked through the source, and am wondering if this is not supported in this mod.

Here is a partial trace that I think supports my conclusions below.

EXECUTE FreeTDM/1:1/7878030 speak(tts_commandline|Callie|-f/tmp/test.txt) 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2237 OPEN TTS tts_commandline 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2246 Raw Codec Activated 2010-12-11 00:26:58.683522 [DEBUG] mod_tts_commandline.c:147 Executing: swift -p audio/sampling-rate=8000 -n 'Callie' '-f/tmp/test.txt' -o '/tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav' 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [ERR] mod_sndfile.c:194 Error Opening File [/tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav] [System error : No such file or directory.] 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [ERR] mod_tts_commandline.c:157 Failed to open file: /tmp/bd5bb8db-ffc2-4830-a971-24a1454c725c.tmp.wav 2010-12-11 00:26:58.696525 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:1935 Speaking text: -f/tmp/test.txt 2010-12-11 00:26:59.097509 [DEBUG] switch_ivr_play_say.c:2127 done speaking text

It seems to almost build the swift command correctly. However, the -f options is inside the single quotes, instead of outside of them like the -o (output file) is.

I don't think it is finding the .txt file, as the log later shows that it is trying to speak the filename including the -f option, instead of the contents of the file.

What do you think?

Thanks

On 12/7/2010 2:17 PM, Michael Collins wrote:

Can you try the mod_tts_commandline way of doing it? The wiki talks about using Cepstral IIRC. -MC

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Phone <phone.bytes@gmail.com> wrote:

...
Just wondering if you have had any luck in resolving this issue.

We are running Cent 5.5 on FreeSWITCH Version 1.0.head (git-8825b6e 2010-11-28 17-15-39 -0500) with Cepstral 5.1 with the Callie voice.

We have good audio for a short period of time, then suddenly the audio is gone. Watching the logs, it show that it is trying to play the correct TTS, but it is silent.

We have tried to unload and reload mod_cepstral, but the only way we have been able to restore the audio is with a FreeSWITCH restart.

These voices sound good, but with these issues, it is really not useable.

Any Ideas? Thanks

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