[Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing

[Race Vanderdecken]

That price seems about right. AT&T is good and they want to make sure
you are able to pay for the stuff. They don't want to support hundreds
of small operations. 
 
Normal business practice. You have a high entry price to make sure
people are serious. Speech and Reco is not easy to support.
 
Just call AT&T and ask them what their price is for their stuff.
 
Race "the tyrant" Vanderdecken
 
-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Dean McEvoy
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:21 PM
To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing
 
What are people's experience with implementing Good quality text to
speech. AT & T natural voices is our preferred product (I don't think
Cepstral is equal in quality) but I am having difficulty getting a clear
answer on pricing for using it. I've heard anecdotally that its $995.00
for the Server Development Kit and $350.00 per port. That seems very
steep. Is there better pricing around for similar quality. do you need
the SDK?
 
Has anyone implemented AT & T on Asterisk is the implementation pretty
straight forward?
 
Can anyone lend any advice on pricing and ease of implementation for
this text to speech product or any others?
 
Thanks
 
Dean
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