[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk
Michael Bielicki
Michael.Bielicki at Global-Gateway.net
Fri Nov 14 05:52:43 MST 2003
200 for polish voice
and another 200 for ukrainian
if somebody is nuts enough I would even have a significant amount for
vietnamese..
On Friday 14 of November 2003 11:52, Ginés Gómez wrote:
> 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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