[Voiceglue] More on UTF-8

Carlos Alarcón carlos.alarcon at tyven.com
Fri Jan 23 12:11:30 EST 2009 

Actually with the installation I did of festival-freebsoft-utils I did, 
Festival is not working anymore ...
the files I was using 
are:http://www.freebsoft.org/pub/projects/festival-freebsoft-utils/festival-freebsoft-utils-0.10.tar.gz


Carlos Alarcón escribió:
> Hi,
> I had installed http://www.freebsoft.org/festival-freebsoft-util and 
> the modified ssml-mode.scm , installed your perl module and applied 
> your patch.
> I I try to run then my vxml page I can't heard anything. I haven't 
> modify ti yet. Just the same application I was using before.
> Seems it is looking to some wav files at asterisk sound folder without 
> succeed, actually that folder only have now a file called :
> [root at xen4 SSMLExtender]# ls /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/voiceglue/tts/
> names.db
>
> the vxml is something like:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <vxml xml:lang="es-ES" version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/vxml">
> <property name="inputmodes" value="dtmf"/>
> <property name="termchar" value=""/>
> <property name="timeout" value="3s"/>
> <catch event="connection.disconnect.hangup"><goto 
> next="index.php?page=hangup"/></catch>
> <form>
> <block><prompt><audio src="audio/welcome.wav">Bienvenido a 
> FonyPay</audio></prompt></block>
> <field><prompt timeout="2s"/><noinput><goto 
> expr="'index.php?txnid=95fac8a9\u0026page=password'"/></noinput></field>
> </form>
> <link next="index.php?txnid=95fac8a9&amp;page=password" dtmf="0"></link>
> <catch event="noinput"><prompt><audio src="audio/noinput.wav">No he 
> oido nada !</audio></prompt>
> </catch>
> </vxml>
>
> I attach the Dynlog output in a file.
>
> Probably I am missing some step but cannot realize right now.
> Checking the logs seems like you are trying to use festival in a 
> client-server way, right?
>
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> VoiceGlue::__ANON__('connect: Conexi\x{c3}\x{b3}n rehusada at
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8...') called at
>    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SSMLExtender.pm line 149
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> SSMLExtender::festival_server_tts('<?xml version=\'1.0\'
>    encoding=\'utf-8\'?><speak version=\'1....',
>    '/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/voiceglue/tts/0000000000000004.wav')
>    called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/SSMLExtender.pm line 116
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> SSMLExtender::voiceglue_tts_gen('SSMLExtender=HASH(0x9570f24)',
>    '<?xml version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'utf-8\'?><speak version=\'1....',
>    '/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/voiceglue/tts/0000000000000004.wav')
>    called at /usr/bin/voiceglue line 3155
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> VoiceGlue::process_next_request_item(1012) called at
>    /usr/bin/voiceglue line 3324
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> VoiceGlue::handle_msg_from_voiceglue_main('1012 - tts <?xml
>    version=\'1.0\' encoding=\'utf-8\'?><speak v...') called at
>    /usr/bin/voiceglue line 3463
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> VoiceGlue::run_sound_cache('::SC_TO_MAIN') called at
>    /usr/bin/voiceglue line 3521
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv       
> VoiceGlue::start_sound_cache() called at /usr/bin/voiceglue line 3924
>    17:33:27:750 CRIT SNDCACHE xen4.tyv     VoiceGlue::main() called at
>    /usr/bin/voiceglue line 4111
>
> If that, I am afraid that after installing festival-freebsoft-util 
> festival_server is not able to start:
>
>    [root at xen4 ~]# festival_server
>    SIOD ERROR: unbound variable : token_to_words
>    closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/cap-signalization.scm
>    closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/speech-dispatcher.scm
>    closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/festival.scm
>    closing a file left open: /usr/share/festival/init.scm
>    festival: fatal error exiting.
>
> I was trying to find out something at festival-freebsoft-util maillist 
> but not succeed. Any cue?
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>
>
> emiliano esposito escribió:
>> Carlos Alarcón ha scritto:
>>> Hi,
>>> Browsing the mailist I can see that Emiliano were doing some stuff 
>>> getting voiceglue able to run with festival and using ISO-8859-1 
>>> encoding.
>>> I am also using festival since it gives Spanish Language support, I 
>>> will need also to use ISO-8859-1 encoding (festival seems not to 
>>> like other).
>>> Does the workaround solve the problem?, I mean, after the 
>>> workaround, does voiceglue give to voiceglue_gen_tts the proper 
>>> ISO-8859-1 characters?
>>
>> Hi, I've made an external module which takes care of some missing 
>> aspects, they are:
>>
>> 1) support for UTF-8.
>> 2) support for SSML speech tags (VXML is a superset of SSML)
>> 3) support for long filenames (strictly connected to point 2).
>>
>> So I included the Perl module and the diffs file for 
>> /usr/bin/voiceglue, v0.8.
>>
>> It's my first Perl program, and it's not much long, so I kindly ask 
>> everybody willing to do it, to correct errors (if any) and don't 
>> blame too much if things are not the state of the art :)
>>
>> Next: Festival! It doesn't like UTF-8, nor SSML, so I downloaded this 
>> package:
>>
>> http://www.freebsoft.org/festival-freebsoft-utils
>>
>> And installed it (simply copy the *.scm files to your Festival 
>> workdir). It provides Scheme functions for ssml (UTF8 encoded!) 
>> support in Festival.
>>
>> Unfortunately there is an error in the code, so I made a slighlty 
>> patched version (included it in the archive) of the "ssml-mode.scm" 
>> file.
>>
>> I also added to it a Scheme function that simply takes an ssml sheet 
>> and produces an Asterisk-ready wave file (ie it does the 8khz 
>> convertion inside Festival).
>>
>> The only bad thing at the moment is that many SSML tags don't work (I 
>> asked in their mailing list why), but if you only need simple text OR 
>> simple tags like "<s>" or "<p>", then it's OK.
>>
>> If you have any question, feel free to ask.
>> Kind regards.
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