[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk

[Peter Brown]

At 22:45 13/11/03 -0800, you wrote:
>>astdev at newww.com wrote:
>>>I'd like to kick around some ideas about using various text to speech
>>>engines with *.
>>>
>>>First a question, I few weeks ago someone made a comment about using
>>>Cepstral with *. Is the Cepstral TTS for Linux a direct replacement
>>>for Festival? or is there a app_cepstral that exists somewhere? The
>>>quality of Cepstral is such that I wouldn't mind spending $30 just to
>>>try it out.  So I'm looking for info on how to use it with *
>>
>>There is not an app_cepstral.  It should be be too tough to create one, 
>>however.  The API info in included with the $30 Cepstral product.  I 
>>don't recall is the libraries and headers are included with it or only in 
>>the $200 SDK product.  The way *I* use Cepstral is in an AGI script.  the 
>>script basically just wraps around the "theta" (Cepstral Text-to-wave 
>>program) then uses STREAM FILE to send the audio to the caller.  Cepstral 
>>us quite fast for Text-To-Wave/
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>
>I'd put $20 towards an app_cepstral - maybe a few more people can put 
>their money where their mouths are (pun intended) and pay someone to write 
>it and submit it to CVS.  The time spent tuning Festival to get it 
>sounding decent is easily offset by $30 for a Cepstral voice plus $20 for 
>an app_cepstral, IMHO.
>
>JT
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I'll put in 40 dollars. if we can find a way to have Australian voices as well

Peter