say.conf

This Asterisk config file describes internationalised forms of digits, dates and numbers. It is available in v1.4.

The syntax is similar to the dialplan regexp syntax.

From the config file:

; The new language routines produce strings of the form

prefix

format:data

; that are matched against the rules in this file to produce
; an output.
;
; The data is generally the string to be spelled (either a number,
; an ascii string or a date/time in the format specified below).
; It is available, in the right hand side of a rule, as variable ${SAY}.
;
; The format is optional and normally used only for date/time.
; The prefix is used to select the pronunciation - standard
; prefixes are
; num used for numbers
; enum used for enumerations
; date for dates
; time for times
; datetime for dates and times
; char for character strings
; phonetic for phonetic strings
; digit for digit strings
;
; but others can be used at will.
;

Processing occurs as follows

; If the format is empty, or there is no format, the entire
; string is matched against one of the pattern on the left hand side.
; On the first match, the various comma-separated components on the right

hand side are pronounced, as follows

+ a component starting with a prefix

(i.e. with a ':' in it)

; is re-processed according to these rules;

+ a component without a '

' in it is considered a filename and

; the corresponding file is played.
;
; If the format is non-empty, the format is split into its components
; (individual characters, or filenames in single quotes), and then
; filenames are played, whereas single characters are used to

generate a new string format

pat:data to be processed.

;
; DATES/AND TIMES assume that the date info is available in
; the form YYYYMMDDHHmm.ss-dow-doy
; with 4 digits for the year, 2 for month, day, hour, minutes, seconds,
; one digit for the day-of-week, and 3 digits for the day-of-year.
;

Example

datetime

:200604172030.00-4-102

; (typical format for a date) is first matched against the line

datetime

:. => date:AdBY 'digits/at' IMp:${SAY}

; which is normally present with the default format for dates.
; In turn, the format string "AdBY 'digits/at' IMp" results in
; the sequence

date

A:200604172030.00-4-102

date

d:200604172030.00-4-102

date

B:200604172030.00-4-102

date

Y:200604172030.00-4-102

; digits/at

date

I:200604172030.00-4-102

date

M:200604172030.00-4-102

date

p:200604172030.00-4-102

;
;
; Remember, normally X Z N are special, and the search is
; case insensitive, so you must use X N Z .. if you
; want exact match.

Example usage

Set(CHANNEL(language)=hu);
        Playback(num:5|say);
               Wait(0.5);
        Playback(num:510|say);
               Wait(0.5);