[Asterisk-Users] Poll - Would you pay $30-$50 for high quality speech synthesis?

[Michael Bielicki]

we would buy it even just for emergency prompts generation but we would need 
different languages, like polish and danish as well :))

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:07, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> Many of you are familiar with how lousy Festival sounds.
>
> AT&T has a product, NaturalVoices, that sounds much better.  There are
> male & female voice fonts for US/UK/Indian English, French, Spanish,
> and German.
>
> I am considering offering a linux-based text-to-speech engine based on
> the NaturalVoices runtime.  An asterisk module would also be provided,
> making it easy to add natural sounding synthesis to Asterisk applications.
> You could also use it for other purposes, such as home automation.
>
> After discussing royalties with AT&T, I have concluded that I can probably
> offer such a product at the following prices:
>
> Runtime - $30 intro price with one voice font & one processor
> Extra voices/languages - $15 each
> Extra processors - $15 each
>
> Depending on demand, the price may rise to $50 at some point.  The lower
> the demand, the higher the price, due to AT&T's royalty structure.
>
> There is a demo of the synthesis engine here:
>
> http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
>
> If you would be willing to pay for this kind of software, please e-mail
> me privately (not to the list).  Please indicate your purchase timeframe
> as well as the number of licenses, extra voices, and processors you
> would want.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff / 'Bicster' on IRC
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