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

[Olivier]

2008/3/23, Rob Hillis <rob at hillis.dyndns.org>:
>
> Maybe the Alison voice is better, but I've found Cepstral to be a bit too
> mechanical.  I'm using Ceptral Millie (since a UK accent is more acceptable
> in Australia than an American one)
>
> The best TTS engine I've *ever* run in to was Nuance Realspeak (see
> http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/)
>

could you integrate with asterisk ?
how did you proceed ,

cheers

 though I don't believe it's cheap - last time I looked it was a couple of
> hundred dollars per channel.  The demo is back online after a long absence
> (though you do need to register to use it)
>
> Francesco Peeters wrote:
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> Steve Edwards wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:
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>
> 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,
>
>
> Are there any tools like these for Dutch language Asterisk installs?...
>
>
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