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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)<br>
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The best TTS engine I've <i>ever</i> run in to was Nuance Realspeak
(see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/">http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/</a>) 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)<br>
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Francesco Peeters wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Steve Edwards wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sanjay.rajdev@featherstoneinformatics.com">sanjay.rajdev@featherstoneinformatics.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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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<pre wrap=""><!---->Are there any tools like these for Dutch language Asterisk installs?...
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