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

[sjacobs at rugburn.org]

Also almost forgot. They sell the demo voices on their site for 29.99.
Linux and windows versions. Since I believe what they use is based off
festival, perhaps the voices could be made to plug into the existing
festival plugin for asterisk?

-Steve

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 sjacobs at rugburn.org wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Chris Albertson
> > >   Home:   310-376-1029  chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com
> > >   Cell:   310-990-7550
> > >   Office: 310-336-5189  Christopher.J.Albertson at aero.org
> > >   KG6OMK
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
> > > http://sbc.yahoo.com
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > > Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> >
>
>