[ale] mgetty and caller ID setup

Mon Dec 10 14:05:52 EST 2001

Why not use festival to generate the basic phone number sound files, eg:
1 2 3 ... then cat them in order and pipe to the sound device. Festival
is SLOW to run unless a way exists to daemonize it.

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 14:03, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Jason Lynn wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I've done this.  I just have "cnd-program /path/to/script.sh" in my
> > mgetty.config.  It works just fine.  The only problem is the delay (I
> > believe it's both from festival and mgetty)... I get the speaker output just
> > a little too late to make it a useful feature.
> 
> So your /path/to/script.sh works fine.  That's good.  I'll double check the
> path and permissions (again).  I know I'm getting CID info from the line,
> because
> the mgetty.log.ttyS0 shows it.
> 
> What do you have in the 'dialin.config' file?
> 
> I was concerned about the festival startup time, too.  Are you using just the
> --tts option, or the festival-server/festival-client stuff?
> 
> 
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