[asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

[Rob Hillis]

Maybe the Alison voice is better, but I've found Cepstral to be a bit 
too mechanical.  I'm using Ceptral Millie (since a UK accent is more 
acceptable in Australia than an American one)

The best TTS engine I've /ever/ run in to was Nuance Realspeak (see 
http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/) though I don't believe it's cheap - 
last time I looked it was a couple of hundred dollars per channel.  The 
demo is back online after a long absence (though you do need to register 
to use it)

Francesco Peeters wrote:
> Steve Edwards wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks everyone for the reply.
>>>
>>> Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
>>> Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.
>>>
>>> I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Cepstral with Allison is only $30.
>>
>> I did a demo IVR for a potential client and it was hard to tell the TTS 
>> bits from the human bits. If I took the time to learn Cepstral's markup 
>> language I probably could have fooled myself :)
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>     
> Are there any tools like these for Dutch language Asterisk installs?...
>   
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