[Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this

[Steve Underwood]

Matthew John Darnell wrote:

>Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound
>studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words.  You would all
>differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question
>etc.
>
>You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them.  With hard drives
>so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a
>single directory that seems like the way to do it.
>
>You could sell it for BIG bucks.
>  
>
People have done this. The results are terrible. You couldn't charge big 
bucks. You'd have trouble giving it away.

Regards,
Steve