Google text to speech for asterisk

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Here is a nifty little text to speech API for Asterisk using google Voice called Google's text to speech for asterisk

Dependencies

mpg123

wget http://waix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mpg123/mpg123/1.13.4/mpg123-1.13.4.tar.bz2
tar jxf mpg123-1.13.4.tar.bz2
cd mpg123-1.13.4
./configure
make
make install
yum -y install perl sox

CPAN:LWP

Install LWP. For a list of CPAN mirrors

yum -y install perl cpan
perl -MCPAN -eshell

once in the shell type in:

install Bundle::LWP

Install

wget https://github.com/downloads/zaf/asterisk-googletts/asterisk-googletts-0.5.tar.gz
tar xvzf asterisk-googletts-0.5.tar.gz
cp asterisk-googletts-0.5/googletts.agi /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/

Usage

exten => 1234,1,Answer
exten => 1234,n,agi(googletts.agi,"Google text to speech for Asteirsk",en)
exten => 1234,n,agi(googletts.agi,"has been successfully installed.",en)
exten => 1234,n,agi(googletts.agi,"Hip Hip Hooray",en)
exten => 1234,n,HangUp