asterisk users - Mar 2008 - Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded for
Asterisk.


Regards,
Sanjay.

At 15:21 3/11/2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:
 >What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts
 >recorded for Asterisk.
 >
 >Regards,
 >Sanjay.

What have you tried so far?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM,
<sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com>
wrote:
> What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded
for Asterisk.
Because of the number of existing recordings, wouldn't Allison be the
best and most cost-effective solution?

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:21, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com 
wrote:
> What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded
> for Asterisk.
We decided to record our own. We set up a recording studio, and that has 
worked out very well for us.

Let me know if we can help.

Ron

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.

Regards,
Sanjay.

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On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:21, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com 
wrote:
> What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded
> for Asterisk.
We decided to record our own. We set up a recording studio, and that has 
worked out very well for us.

Let me know if we can help.

Ron



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On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:33:38 sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com 
wrote:
> I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve
> the sound quality of Festival somehow.
No, but you could try Cepstral:
http://www.cepstral.com/

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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.
Cepstrel is good, cheap, and now has an Allison (yes, THAT Allison) voice!

Steve

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:03:38AM +0530, 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.
What language do you want?

There are UK English versions of the 1.2 release  available from
www.tel.net, I should have the 1.4 version up very soon. They were
recorded by Jay Benham (links from the site).

In terms of text-to-speech there are several solutions, have a look at
www.talklets.com who run a text-to-speech (well accessibility, but TTS
as part of it) software as a service solution.

Steve

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