[asterisk-biz] professional TTS in asterisk buisness edition

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 12:01 +0100, Cavalera Claudio Luigi wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> > [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> > Dwayne Hubbard
> > >   
> > A trial version of Cepstral TTS is included in ABE releases 
> > but for an additional fee one can upgrade to a professional 
> > version of the Cepstral TTS Engine.
> > 
> 
> How does the connection between TTS engine and Asterisk work?
> Do you sell something more professional? Or it's just a matter to put
> Swift("read my text") in the dialplan?
> I would like to have the text dynamic by the way and not hardcoded in
> the dialplan.


long long ago I had done a macro that would execute a script that would
pull off a webpage (and cache it so it only pulls the first time per
unique phrase) TTS output from iirc ibm.  This was not that difficult,
and there are some that have TOSs that prohivbit that, although I didnt
see one at that time for the one I did.  

I did another that I didnt release that used oddcast.com for their TTS
stuff, I was concerned with their license terms.

I dont know where the TTS script is, I may still have a copy somewhere
and can look for it if its really desired, this isnt something I would
recommend for largely dynamic text, but does work well for generating
IVR prompts that may occasionally change.

The point of this is that its not that difficult to do, although the
cepstral one has a module that provides an application command, that
directly calls libswift, so its slightly better, although cepstral does
have platform limitations (windows, osx and linux afaik).

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