Google text to speech for asterisk

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

Dependencies

CentOS

yum -y install perl perl-libwww-perl sox cpan

mpg123

rpm -Uhv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum -y install mpg123

or

wget http://waix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mpg123/mpg123/1.14.4/mpg123-1.14.4.tar.bz2
tar jxf mpg123-1.14.4.tar.bz2
cd mpg123-1.14.4
./configure
make
make install

Raspbian

apt-get install -y perl libwww-perl sox mpg123

CPAN:LWP

Install LWP. For a list of CPAN mirrors

PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::LWP"
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e "install CGI::Util"

Install

wget https://github.com/zaf/asterisk-googletts/blob/master/googletts.agi
mv googletts.agi /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/
chmod 755 /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/googletts.agi

Usage

exten => 1234,1,Answer
exten => 1234,n,agi(googletts.agi,"Google text to speech for Asterisk",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