;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;install one of the demo's of ceptral and put this lines somewhere. ; Diane is the name of the voice. If you pick another voice you have to change the name in the line ; There are also options to have a plain text file read. You can read the news or watever as long as there is a plain text file to point to. ; use -f textfile.txt instead of "plain text" ; You could download the news in a plain textfile using wget ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; exten => 404,1,Answer exten => 404,2,System(/opt/swift/bin/swift -n Diane "This is an example of using swift with asterisk" -o /tmp/tbook001.wav) exten => 404,3,System(sox /tmp/tikka.wav -r 8000 -c 1 -s -w /usr/share/asterisk/sounds/tbook001.gsm resample -ql) exten => 404,4,Playback(tbook001) exten => 404,5,hangup