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

[Chris Albertson]

Sorry, I left out the URL.  Here it is

  http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/

If interrested look at "demos" on the top menu bar.
You see what is involved in building new databases
for new languages or speaker voices for Festival.

When you complain about the sound you are really complaining
about the database quality or the quality of in mark-up 
embedded in the input text.

In building a new database first you will need to find a
human with a nice sounding voice who speaks the language
with the "correct" regional accent.  That may be the hardest
part but after that it seems to take about a day or two



--- Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com> 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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