How to install Festival Text to Speech (TTS) in VitalPBX?

Festival translates the text into speech and can be used on the VitalPBX dial plan.

Installation

Copy install.sh to your home directory and procedure to execute.

cd /

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VitalPBX/pico2wave/master/install.sh

chmod +x install.sh

./install.sh

Voice Select

If you want to change the voice you must go to the voice configuration files that is in:

cd /usr/share/festiva/lib

Edit the voices.scm file and near line 328 will show the list of available voices, order in such a way that the first one will be the one we hear.

After selecting the voice, the festival service must be restarted:

systemctl restart festival.service

Now Dial

*8866

You should hear the following sentence.

This is a simple Vital P B X text to speech test in english.