[Asterisk-Users] Cepstral

[Bob Goddard]

On Monday 11 Jul 2005 05:02, Michael Stearne wrote:
> On 7/10/05, Jim Archer <jim at archer.net> wrote:
> > Thanks William and John, I'll look again for that download. Comments
> > below...
> >
> > --On Sunday, July 10, 2005 1:50 PM +0200 Wilson Pickett
> >
> > <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > FWIW? I bought that voice and I find it amusing, but not ready for
> > > prime time. I had it read articles from a publication and it was
> > > ludicrous.  I can understand the people talking about ATT, I think I
> > > heard a demo that was very convincing.
> >
> > What is ATT?  Is it another text to speech engine?  I installed Festival
> > a
>
> AT&T Natural voices seem to be pretty good.  You can hear samples here:
> http://www.wizzardsoftware.com/att_desktop.php .  The Rich voice I
> think sounds the best.  They are a little better than the Cepstral
> voices.  But the Cepstral voices are vey good also.

Compared to Rhetorical (http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi),
the ATT system sounds awful.


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