[asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the reply.
>
> Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
> Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.
>
> I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.

Cepstral with Allison is only $30.

I did a demo IVR for a potential client and it was hard to tell the TTS 
bits from the human bits. If I took the time to learn Cepstral's markup 
language I probably could have fooled myself :)

Thanks in advance,
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