MailCall for Asterisk 1.4 Ready for Testing

[sircolin]

before when i was trying to get it to connect to gmail and before i got it working, i had cepstal working.
now Im using a vm image now i wonder if it's related.

 

[AlwaysONS]

Voice?

I have installed this application and like all of Ward's applications it worked first time, I would like to know if anyone knows the proper steps to upgrading the voice or quality of voice for this application. I see where others had problems so I thought I would ask, the last fix was NVM - got it to work ...?

 

[wardmundy]

before when i was trying to get it to connect to gmail and before i got it working, i had cepstal working.
now Im using a vm image now i wonder if it's related.

There are 4 different Cepstral install procedures depending upon the version of Asterisk you're using and whether you're running with the 32-bit or 64-bit kernel. Just be sure you choose the right one, and Cepstral works fine on both stand-alone and virtual machines. See the tutorial.

 

[AlwaysONS]

Thanks Ward will do...

 

[sircolin]

Let Me try and make things clear, because my problem is not at all related to installing Cepstral or Swift.

I have swift and cepstral installed as per wards instructions also swift too,
These have been working for a few month's now without fault i have many ivr's using cepstral so it's working fine.

Now the default code in mailcall uses flite as seen here

exten => 6245,1,Answer
exten => 6245,2,Wait(1)
exten => 6245,3,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=7)
exten => 6245,4,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=4)
exten => 6245,5,Flite("At the beep enter your e-mail password.")
;exten => 6245,5,Swift ("At the beep enter your e-mail password.")
exten => 6245,6,Read(PWCODE,beep,6)
exten => 6245,7,Flite("Please hold a moment.")
;exten => 6245,7,Swift("Please hold a moment.")
exten => 6245,8,AGI(nv-mailcall.php,${PWCODE})
exten => 6245,9,Flite("Thank you for calling. Good bye.")
;exten => 6245,9,Swift("Thank you for calling. Good bye.")
exten => 6245,10,Hangup

now if i comment out all the entries for Flite and uncomment all the entries for Swift like so

exten => 6245,1,Answer
exten => 6245,2,Wait(1)
exten => 6245,3,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=7)
exten => 6245,4,Set(TIMEOUT(response)=4)
;exten => 6245,5,Flite("At the beep enter your e-mail password.")
exten => 6245,5,Swift ("At the beep enter your e-mail password.")
exten => 6245,6,Read(PWCODE,beep,6)
;exten => 6245,7,Flite("Please hold a moment.")
exten => 6245,7,Swift("Please hold a moment.")
exten => 6245,8,AGI(nv-mailcall.php,${PWCODE})
;exten => 6245,9,Flite("Thank you for calling. Good bye.")
exten => 6245,9,Swift("Thank you for calling. Good bye.")
exten => 6245,10,Hangup

I would have thought i would hear Allison's voice and not the flite voice when dialing in for my emails.

Is this correct because this is not what im seeing.
As soon as i uncomment the swift entires and comment out the flite entries the whole mail call app stops working and hang's up the call.

 

[wardmundy]

Ah. Bet you forgot to change the setting in /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/nv-mailcall.php.

 

[sircolin]

thanks

Ah. Bet you forgot to change the setting in /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/nv-mailcall.php.

Hmm i bet i did too, lets have a look.

Are these the lines to which you refer ward

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?
 ob_implicit_flush(false);
 error_reporting(0);
 set_time_limit(300);
 [B]$ttsengine[0] = "flite"[/B] ;
 [B]$ttsengine[1] = "swift"[/B] ;

those seem to be correctly set to me, is there any other lines in here that need to be changed ?

 

[wardmundy]

Come on, SirColin:

ob_implicit_flush(false);
error_reporting(0);
set_time_limit(300);
$ttsengine[0] = "flite" ;
$ttsengine[1] = "swift" ;

//-------- DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE ----------------

$debug = 1;
$newlogeachdebug = 1;
$emaildebuglog = 0;
$email = "yourname@yourdomain" ;
$ttspick = 0 ;

//-------- DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE ----------------

 

[sircolin]

I should have spotted that.

I have made the changes suggested and now

My problems seems to be not getting sound from cepstral, the script is running fine i can see it from the asterisk cli.

if i run

asterisk -rx "core show application swift"

I get

Your application(s) is (are) not registered

if i type swift i get lots of useful output.

is the fact swift is not registered with asterisk the reason im getting no sound.

im running Version 1.4 - 64 bit (proxmox)

 

[wardmundy]

You either installed the wrong version or you forgot to execute the ln command.

 

[sircolin]

It was a while since i installed this pbx but as i remember make failed with app-swift so i put it on the back burner until i had time.
i have been using this without swift installed it seems.

so following these instructions

[B]Asterisk 1.4 Install.[/B] To install apt-swift on your [I]PBX in a Flash[/I]/Asterisk 1.4 system:

cd /usr/src
wget http://pbxinaflash.net/source/app_swift/app_swift-1.4.2.tar.gz
tar -zxvf app_swift*
rm *.gz
cd app_swift-1.4.2
make
make install

When i enter the make command i get these errors

http://mythbuntu.pastebin.com/9mFpF2Aw

is this this right post to follow is there anything else i need to know about compiling this on the pbxiaf64 image.

thanks

 

[wardmundy]

Rtfm

Google Searches are still free. Have you tried reading the article about this?

 

[sircolin]

Google Searches are still free

Yes google are good like that, i have done many searches regarding this before posting here!

Have you tried reading the article about this

I thought that you would have seen these are your own instructions regarding installing app-swift, from that very article to which you refer.

I have followed and installed cepstral from that article, right upto the make command for swift which as i said fails, i will read it again anyways.

 

[sircolin]

Solved

I now have Cepstral working on my VM as expected, in fact Cepstral was always working with text to speech using the Wav's files.
I thought i had checked that swift was installed by typing swift at the command line which did give me some information about swift, and i assumed it was installed on asterisk.
But when i run

asterisk -rx "core show application swift"

I got nothing.

So after wards advice i then checked the swift version in /usr/src and found app_swift-0.9.1 the wrong version of swift was installed by the looks of things, and it was not registered with asterisk as it was the wrong version.

i installed the correct version as per wards instructions and checked the rest of the code for any errors and now have it working well.

Thanks to Ward and Joe for their help once again.