[Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing

[Robert Rozman]

Hi,

I'm using Festival. I know, original voices are not so good, but additional 
and much better voices can be obtained for free also....

I have no doubt, that commercial solutions are better, but for me those 
voices (HTS) are good enough....

Regards,

Rob.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Hsu" <peter at linkupservice.com>
To: <dean at velcrosneaker.com.au>; "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk 
Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing


Dean,

I'm looking at some of the same questions, so the answers will be 
interesting to see.

I'm fairly new at Asterisk as well, but I believe Festival is a free TTS 
plug-in for Asterisk.

I don't know about the underlying details of Asterisk, so I don't know how 
easily it would integrate with natural voices.  I remember that natural 
voices ran as a server.  To use it, you would essentially pass it your text 
string, and it would return your audio file.  I'm fairly certain this would 
plug into asterisk fairly easily.

You can find some vendors of natural voices that will give you bulk 
discounts on the port pricing as well.  I remember someone quoting me as low 
as 250 a port, depending on the number of ports.

Peter Hsu

p.s. I do believe you need the SDK.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dean McEvoy
  To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
  Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:21 PM
  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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