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

[sjacobs at rugburn.org]

Had to interject here. Please visit these guys:
http://www.cepstral.com/

Its a commercial venture from the guys who write Festival. Some of the
voice demo's I've seen them give are creepily good. There is a demo on the
site to check out if you want to see how good their voices are. They do
custom work as well, or at least they used to.

-Steve

On 15 Jul 2003, Jared Smith wrote:

> Would you mind giving us a few examples on how we can make festival
> sound better?  (Some sample festival configs would be nice!)
>
> Jared
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:41, Chris Albertson wrote:
> > --- 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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