Asterisk VOIP - Speech Dialler Application

An Asterisk server setup is required to read a text file and a telephone number from a database. The text file is then to be converted to speech, the telephone number called (using VOIP) and the message played to the receiver of the call. In order to load the database with telephone numbers and text, a single web page input screen will be required. This web page will be exposed to the internet and will be password protected to start with. ## Deliverables **Technical considerations** A VPS server environment with Debian 4.0 is available The website needs to operate in a LAMP environment, utilizing Apache, MySQL and PHP scripting. A text to speech engine is required suitable for use in a LAMP environment ??" happy to take suggestions on this The text to speech audio should be encoded into G.729 The G.729 audio should be sent to a VOIP service provider using SIP Initial installation of the website onto the web server will be required by the coder, suitable access will be provided to do this **Software to be supplied** MySQL database Text to speech engine Asterisk (most suitable version)? **Sample sites**? These are websites that display similar functionality to what is required from a text to speech viewpoint ? [[login to view URL]][1] [[login to view URL]][2]