[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk

Ginés Gómez gines at voztele.com
Fri Nov 14 03:52:53 MST 2003


we can put another 50, spanish voice
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Brown" <peterabrown at froggy.com.au>
To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk


> 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/
> >[snip]
> >
> >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
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