From c8c0984136be0e809fc5a249ac9bf67c441ccb8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raymond Chandler <intralanman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:57:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] don't seg if we forget voice

---
 src/mod/asr_tts/mod_flite/mod_flite.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/mod/asr_tts/mod_flite/mod_flite.c b/src/mod/asr_tts/mod_flite/mod_flite.c
index be7abd1915..baa81840f7 100644
--- a/src/mod/asr_tts/mod_flite/mod_flite.c
+++ b/src/mod/asr_tts/mod_flite/mod_flite.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  * Contributor(s):
  * 
  * Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org>
+ * Raymond Chandler <intralanman@freeswitch.org>
  *
  * mod_flite.c -- Flite Interface
  *
@@ -77,6 +78,11 @@ static switch_status_t flite_speech_open(switch_speech_handle_t *sh, const char
 
 	sh->native_rate = 16000;
 
+	if (!voice_name) {
+		switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "A voice is required. Valid voice names are awb, rms, slt or kal.\n");
+		return SWITCH_STATUS_FALSE;
+	}
+
 	if (!strcasecmp(voice_name, "awb")) {
 		flite->v = globals.awb;
 	} else if (!strcasecmp(voice_name, "kal")) {