[Asterisk-Dev] Text to speech on Asterisk

[John Todd]

I would encourage this path, since I think Cepstral sounds great, and 
seems to be easier to tune than Festival.  Here is the person at 
Cepstral that I've exchanged mail with, and he was very excited to 
learn of Asterisk's use of their modules:

Kevin Lenzo (CTO) lenzo at cepstral.com

JT


>I think we at digium could make/sell the Cepestral app if we can get a
>hold of the folks there.  In any case, such an app would have to come
>through us since to get an exception, as otherwise it would be in
>violation of GPL.
>
>Mark
>
>On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Peter Brown wrote:
>
>>  At 13:07 14/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>  >Perhaps the best way for me to proceed from here would be to develop a
>>  >TTS app that can use either Festival or Cepstral. This would allow the
>>  >community to choose free Festival or $30 Cepstral. It would also
>>
>>
>>  Dave,
>>
>>  I think the most efficient way is if you can volunteer to create an
>>  app_cepstral, if this works then we have a pattern for others or even go
>>  generic after that.
>>
>>  I would be happy to help fund (presumably others will also contribute) the
>>  SDK for getting it working as an app.
>>
>>  After that let's see where it takes us.
>>
>  > Peter