[Asterisk-Users] OT: Online TTS engines?

[Paul]

I found this on their website: "This demo is for demonstration purposes 
only. For other use, please contact our Sales Office 
<http://www.scansoft.com/speechworks/sales/>."

If they are reading these posts they will probably be making some simple 
changes to limit rate of requests processed from a client. Even if they 
aren't reading this thread they might see that they need to add some 
brakes to the free demo.

I'm not criticizing you. If I were doing this I would probably continue 
tweaking as long as I was enjoying it. Just don't count on it being 
usable for a long time into the future.

Jeffrey Bird wrote:

> I use an additional shell script that breaks up the text into 
> sentences, which hopefully have less than 100 characters. These 
> sentences are then processed by the perl script and concatenated into 
> a single wave file:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> OUTDIR=${1:-.}
>
> while read file text
> do
>     echo $file
>     (echo $text | sed -e 's/\. /.\n/g' | while read s
>     do
>         ./getsound.pl - "$s" | sox -t wav - -t raw -r 8000 -sw -c 1 -
>     done) | sox -t raw -r 8000 -sw -c 1 - $OUTDIR/$(basename $file 
> .gsm).wav
> done
>
> This script expects stdin to be a list like:
>
> hello.gsm Hello there.
> thankyou.gsm Thank you.
> long.gsm This is a long piece of text. And another sentence.
>
> So far, I have not had to process a sentence that is longer than 100 
> characters, but this would not be too hard to cater to. I have 
> attached the perl script for perusal.
>
> Jeffrey Bird
>
> Colin Anderson wrote:
>
>>Curious if the perl scropt overcomes the 100 char limitation?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Rod Bacon [mailto:rod.bacon at empoweredcomms.com.au]
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:41 AM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion;
>>jeff at jbird.org
>>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Online TTS engines?
>>
>>
>>Can I get a copy of that PERL script?
>>
>>
>>==========================================
>>Rod Bacon
>>Empowered Communications
>>Ground Floor, 102 York St. South Melbourne
>>Victoria, Australia. 3205
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>>
>>Jeffrey Bird wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>I have been using the web demo of ScanSoft's SpeechWorks - RealSpeak at 
>>>http://www.scansoft.com/speechworks/realspeak/demo/default.asp. It has 
>>>very nice output. I even managed to get a nifty perl script going that 
>>>can do TTS from the command line for me.
>>>
>>>Jeffrey Bird
>>>
>>>Colin Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>The one I like:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi
>>>>
>>>>is toast. I think they went broke or got aquired by someone. Also, is 
>>>>there
>>>>a Festival voice that sounds as good as Rhetorical or the AT & T 
>>>>stuff? The
>>>>default one is barely legible. Since Festival is a little brutal to
>>>>configure, I'd like to get someone's recommendation then go through 
>>>>the pain
>>>>of reconfiguring it only once. 
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