This installation guide is for RHEL/Fedora Client:
- Install Flite Development Package:
yum install flite-devel
In RHEL this might not work. Download the rpm for flite & flite-devel and install them.
- Installing asterisk-flite RPM:
For ver 1.4 Download the Asterisk-Flite RPM (ver 0.5) and install using the command
rpm -Uhv asterisk-flite-0.5-1.rpmFor ver 1.6 Download the Asterisk-Flite RPM (ver 0.6) and install
- Verify the installation on Asterisk CLI. Enter the following commands on CLI:
restart gracefully
core show application Flite
If this command gives an error your Flite package is not installed properly
Finally to Flite can be used as shown below in extensions.conf:
exten => 123,1,Flite(this is a test.)
Also note, it is not possible to use the punctuation mark comma (,) with Flite dialplan application.