[Asterisk-Users] Poll - Would you pay $30-$50 for high quality speech synthesis?

[Chris Albertson]

--- Jeff Noxon <jeff-asterisk at planetfall.com> wrote:
> Many of you are familiar with how lousy Festival sounds.
> 
> AT&T has a product, NaturalVoices, that sounds much better.  There
> are
> male & female voice fonts for US/UK/Indian English, French, Spanish,
> and German.

Festival only sounds bad because you are using it in a very simple way.
It comes with a "demo" text to speech application that really is no
more then a demo but most people just use the demo app and think
Festival itself sounds bad.  You need to read a bit more.  Also at
the cmu.edu web site are some tools for building your own voices.
These can sound very good and speeak other languages.
If you work at it the sound can be very natural.

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