[asterisk-users] text2wave Voices Improvements?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 07:08:25PM -0300, João Paulo Vanzuita wrote:
> 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

What gain will you get with a 16kHz sample rate over a 8kHz sample rate if
you play the results to a 8kHz line anyway?

Alternatively, if you use the festvox-kallpc8k, would it save CPU time?

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