[asterisk-users] What TTS to use?

[Ishfaq Malik]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:40 +0100, Chris Bagnall wrote:
> On 26/7/12 11:08 am, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> > I'm thinking about deploying TTS onto our asterisk servers and was just
> > wondering which ones people use and like...
> 
> We've tried Festival, Cepstral and Ivona.
> 
> Ivona was by far and away the best.
> 
> If you need free (or very low cost) then your only real option is 
> Festival. Just make sure to pick one of the newer voices.
> 
> This was all based on UK English. If you're after something else, you 
> may find different results.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Chris

Hi Chris

UK English is exactly what we're after. Did you try flite at all?

Thanks

Ish

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