https://github.com/jywarren/ruby-asterisk-speaker

A Ruby on Rails application with RAGI interface to Asterisk, which can generate speech from arbitrary text strings and play it over the asterisk-phone interface.
https://github.com/jywarren/ruby-asterisk-speaker

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A Ruby on Rails application with RAGI interface to Asterisk, which can generate speech from arbitrary text strings and play it over the asterisk-phone interface.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jywarren/ruby-asterisk-speaker
• Owner: jywarren
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2009-11-03T20:36:26.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-02-25T14:14:34.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-10T14:17:49.474Z (5 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 238 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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==RUBY-ASTERISK-SPEAKER==

This is a ruby on rails application to connect to an Asterisk instance and create voice menus in rails. An added feature is that if you're running it on a mac os X server you can autogenerate speech from any arbitrary text using the applescript gem and the built in speech abilities of Mac OS X. 

There are a few open source speech generators, but I haven't tried any; this is kind of a proof of concept since not many people run osx server. (Suggestion: Festival via http://github.com/gisikw/acts_as_sayable/)

Generally this builds on RAGI (the ragi gem) but with the added ability to pass an Asteriskspeak.speak_text('hello world') or similar call to the play_sound() method provided by ragi.

This being a kind of example app, it also uses bits of the Google News library for Rails, which I published a while ago:

http://unterbahn.com/2009/08/google-news-library-for-ruby/

So therefore it also requires geokit and httparty. But really you should have httparty installed already, 'cause it's great.

Requires the applescript, ragi, httparty, and geokit gems.

==TO INSTALL==

First, point your Asterisk system at the server in question. This assumes your Asterisk server is on a different machine. Add the following lines to the default dialplan of your extensions.conf file:

exten = s,n,Set(RAGI_SERVER="your.server.url:4573")

exten = s,n,agi(agi://${RAGI_SERVER}/ragi/index)

(For more on Asterisk dialplans and Asterisk in general, look at the Asterisk O'Reilly book, free downloadable pdf here: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf)

Run the following commands:

$ git clone git://github.com/jywarren/ruby-asterisk-speaker.git

$ cd ruby-asterisk-speaker

$ rake gems:install

$ script/server

Have fun!

Example:

    play_sound(Asteriskspeak.speak_text('Welcome to News Speak. You will now hear 5 articles from Google News.'))

    wait(1)

    index = 1

    Googlenews.short(5).each do |article|

    

      play_sound(Asteriskspeak.speak_text('Article '+index.to_s))

      wait(1)

      play_sound(Asteriskspeak.speak_text(article['title']))

      wait(1)

      index += 1

    

    end

    play_sound(Asteriskspeak.speak_text('Thank you. That is all.'))