[asterisk-users] espeak app for asterisk 1.6

[Lefteris Zafiris]

Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Lefteris Zafiris wrote:
> 
>> I have written a module for asterisk that uses the eSpeak speech 
>> synthesizer (http://espeak.sourceforge.net/) to render text to speech. 
>> The source is available here: http://zaf.github.com/Asterisk-eSpeak/
> 
> I hope it sounds a whole lot better in practice than it does on their
> sample available at http://espeak.sourceforge.net/samples/raven.ogg
> 
> Cepstral's Allison font is miles ahead.
> 
Actually it sounds like that demo. You can improve it a bit by altering
the voice settings (speed pitch etc) in the config but it cannot
match Cepstrals solution. Flite (in which Cepstral is based) gives a
better sound but its limited in voice support (i think it supports only
English)