[asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?

[João Paulo Vanzuita]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:52:21 -0400
Matthew Rubenstein <email at mattruby.com> wrote:

> 	I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write
> a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background()
> command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice
> synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval
> "(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4)" -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still
> sounds like it's talking while sucking down a strawful of spaghetti. How
> do I install a different voice, to speak basically simple emails? I'm
> (APT) installing on Debian 3.1/Sarge, Asterisk 1.4.x .

works fine to me installing "festvox-kallpc16k" for speaker
apt-get install festvox-kallpc16k festival