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

[Jared Smith]

Would you mind giving us a few examples on how we can make festival
sound better?  (Some sample festival configs would be nice!)

Jared

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:41, Chris Albertson wrote:
> --- 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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