[Asterisk-Users] festival voices

[John Todd]

At 2:56 PM -0800 2/12/04, Chris Albertson wrote:
>--- Tony Buser <gr0k at juju.org> wrote:
>>  Hi, I'm new to both asterisk and festival.  I'm trying to figure out
>>  how
>>  to change the voice festival uses.  For example, I've downloaded
>>  don_diphone to festival/lib/voices/english.  I then edited
>>  /etc/asterisk/festival.conf and changed the festival command to:
>>
>>  festivalcommand=(voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk "%s"
>>  'file)(quit)\n
>
>
>try adding a set of parens like this:
>
>festivalcommand=((voice_don_diphone)(tts_textasterisk
>"%s"'file)(quit))\n
>
><SNIP>
>>  natural sounding voice?  So far the best I've found were from here:
>>  http://hts.ics.nitech.ac.jp/download.html
>
>Have you seen "festivox"?  It's a tool for building voices
>
>The key to making festival sound natural is to get the
>timming and entonation right.  The astrisk app uses festivels
>"demo" test to speech application which is just that a
>quick dirty demo.
>
>Have you seen the markup language on the CMU site? 
>http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html
>"Sable" can do MUCH better then the simple tts application.
>
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As a reminder to our viewing audience: search the archives for 
"cepstral" - there are some decent sounding voices with Cepstral, for 
$30.  There is a patch in the bugtracker for app_cepstral, though I 
have not had a chance to play with it yet.

JT