Install flite (Text to Speech Engine)

[jjoshua]

Flite is a text to speech engine.  You need this, for example, to run the weather module (http://www.fonicaprojects.com/wiki/index.php/FreePBX_Module:_U.S._Weather_by_Zip).

To install:

Start by installing the pre-built flite libraries...
1.  apt-get update
2.  apt-get install flite-devel

Finish with Asterisk-Flite (http://zaf.github.com/Asterisk-Flite/)
1.  cd /tmp
2.  wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/zaf/Asterisk-Flite/Asterisk-Flite-1.6-0.1-beta2.tar.gz
3.  tar -xvf Asterisk-Flite-1.6-0.1-beta2.tar.gz
4.  cd Asterisk-Flite
5.  make
6.  make install
7.  asterisk -r
8.  core show application flite

  -= Info about application 'Flite' =-

[Synopsis]
Say text to the user, using Flite TTS engine
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[iboston]

hey, that's good news.  Has anyone had success with installing Cepstral which is a higher quality Text to Speech Engine.

iBoston