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Session speak

About​

Uses the TTS engine to say a phrase. You must have a TTS module loaded for this to work.

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Synopsis​

speak(engine,voice,phrase,timer)

  • engine - the engine to use
  • voice - the name of the voice to use
  • phrase - what you want it to say
  • timer - optional timer to use (eg "soft")

in cepstral phrase can include SSML tags as well. See here for more info

in cepstral if phrase starts with / it will open a file specified and read its contents instead of a string -- need windows specifics on path information

Example​

session.speak("cepstral","David","Hello from FreeSwitch");

with callback​

function my_dtmf_callback(dtmf_str, digits, args)
{
    console_log("debug", "you dialed the following " + dtmf_str + " + digits + "\n");
    return true;
}

session.speak("cepstral", "david", '<break time="500ms"/>Hello this is a test of the break tag', my_dtmf_callback);

Be sure not to put the name of the callback function in quotes.

reading a file​

session.speak("cepstral","David","/etc/passwd");