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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dean,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking at some of the same questions, so the
answers will be interesting to see.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm fairly new at Asterisk as well, but I believe Festival is a free TTS
plug-in for Asterisk. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter Hsu</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>p.s. I do believe you need the SDK.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=dean@velcrosneaker.com.au
href="mailto:dean@velcrosneaker.com.au">Dean McEvoy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech
pricing</DIV>
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face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <FONT size=2>$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?</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone
implemented AT & T on Asterisk is the implementation pretty straight
forward?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone
lend any advice on pricing and ease of implementation for this text to speech
product or any others?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=635193707-07072005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Dean</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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