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

[John Todd]

>--- Jeff Noxon <jeff-asterisk at planetfall.com> 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.
>
>Festival only sounds bad because you are using it in a very simple way.
>It comes with a "demo" text to speech application that really is no
>more then a demo but most people just use the demo app and think
>Festival itself sounds bad.  You need to read a bit more.  Also at
>the cmu.edu web site are some tools for building your own voices.
>These can sound very good and speeak other languages.
>If you work at it the sound can be very natural.
>
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If the price is truly $50 for a system to deploy ATT's solution, I 
and my customers would gleefully pay that price rather than fiddling 
around with festival and getting a decent-sound phonetic library 
installed and debugged.

JT