[asterisk-users] Best free text to speech..

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Witch festival version are you talking about?


I need spanish(argentinian) voice...


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Backeberg <dbackeberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Danny Nicholas<danny at debsinc.com> wrote:
> > Cepstral and Festival are both “Free”.  In Cepstral, you pay a license
> fee
> > for the voice you use.  In Festival, you tune the mechanical voice the
> way
> > you want.  So if you want “Truly free”, choose Festival.  If you want a
> > Human, “Professional” voice,  Cepstral offers a reasonably priced
> product.
>
> I've never seen prices for Cepstral, but another commercial product is
> AT&T Natural Voices.
> http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/
>
> I will say that Festival sounds  better now than it did a few years
> ago. I don't know the exact date, but at some point between when we
> chose to go with Natural Voices and now, Festival released a new
> algorithm that sounds dramatically better than it used to.
>
> I also really love the Scottish voices that come with Festival.
> They're improper for my usage, but if you have a business catering to
> customers where those accents would be appropriate it's a nice
> product.
>
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