[asterisk-biz] professional TTS in asterisk buisness edition

[Matthew Rubenstein]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 00:29 +0100, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:32 -0500, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > 	Is there anywhere that discusses the differences between Cepstral's TTS
> > and the (inadequate) Festival system bundled with Asterisk?
> 
> 
> festival is largely inadequate because of the voices themselves not the
> engine that processes them (although there are probably some context
> things you need to work around "record your name" vs "play that record
> album").  You can make your own voices with festival, and voice
> development is the most costly part of the TTS engine.

	Is there somewhere people can listen to an adequate Festival deployment
with good voices, like a phone# somewhere? And otherwise, Cepstral's TTS
doesn't offer any other actually useful features that make it better
than a well-recorded Festival?
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein