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The one I like: http://www.rhetorical.com/cgi-bin/demo.cgi is toast. I think they went broke or got aquired by someone. Also, is there a Festival voice that sounds as good as Rhetorical or the AT & T stuff? The default one is barely legible. Since Festival is a little brutal to configure, I'd like to get someone's recommendation then go through the pain of reconfiguring it only once.

I'm about to begin working on an ivr project to do database backed scheduling. I would like to use text to speech in some places. What are the differences in using festival vs. Cepstral? How are they similar, how are they different? Is one really better than the other? How and Why? Thanks, Eric -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello-- In the interests of playing around and wasting time, I've installed the latest version of the Festival stuff, 1.95beta. And, in the interests of future Asterisk-Festival connectivity, I applied the 1.4.3 patch to put in the asterisk related routines. I did it by hand, but, it looks like the patch will apply with no comment. Asterisk works with the new server... BUT the speed of

Hello, I've been lurking around the mailing list and browsing around on Asterisk-related links while I wait for my X100P to come in the mail. So far I haven't found very much information related to what I want to do with Asterisk. I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of any work that may already have been done on a project similar to the one I'm trying to

What models? Jeff Noxon (jeff-asterisk at planetfall.com) wrote*: > >I just purchased a bunch of Nortel Meridian POTS phones that support >intercom on the 3rd pair. I intend to get it working with Asterisk. >The phones support MWI, have a 3-line display, callerID, call waiting >callerID, 2 lines...very nice. > >On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:07:19AM -1000, James H. Thompson

Just and FYI. In RPM form, works on 4.x and I will try on 5.x too. Speech is tacky, but if I can get something but the Gnome Festival synthesizer, maybe it will improve? http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html?promoid=BONRM -- Bill

Hello, I have Asterisk running on a RH9 box; Everything seems to be working as it should, except for Festival. Every time that Festival is called from Asterisk, Asterisk silently shuts down. Festival doesn't give any error indication and Asterisk just plain dies without a peep. Festival was installed per the Wiki, using source and patched with festival-1.4.3-diff; it works fine at the

How do you get Cepstral working, they only offer windows versions. do I have to complie it to linux? http://www.cepstral.com

Greetings, Using Xen 3.1 and Fedora 7, is it possible to export the serial interface such that I can access external devices on COM1 or COM2? I am uncertain if PCI pass-thru is needed or if there''s nothing to configure for this to work in a fully virtualized Linux guest. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Tony Johnson _______________________________________________

I seem to be having a problem with transcoding and/or agreeing on a valid codec. I am running a new image pulled from CVS at 1:30 PM CST. The issue occurs when I try to make a call to a toll-free number over sipphone.com. Here's what I see in the console: NOTICE[1259545280]: File channel.c, Line 1478 (ast_set_read_format): Unable to find a path from G729A to ULAW NOTICE[1259545280]: File

hi List, i've been trying to get festival work on my 1.4.4 *box for the last 3days, i've used the tutorial on this page http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Festival+installation with exactly the same line in my dialplan just to make a test now when i try to call( dial 555 ) from my softphone i get this message on festival server debugger: server Tue May 8 11:36:53 2007 : Festival

Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that

I currently have an AGI that calls the Festival text2wave app to write a wav file that my dialplan plays into a call with the Background() command. But the voice sounds terrible: like SAM, the 1980s 6502 voice synthesizer. I tried to slow it down by calling (text2wav -eval "(Parameter.set 'Duration_Stretch 1.4)" -scale 2.0 [...]), but it still sounds like it's talking while

Just curious to know if anyone uses Festival with * and whether or not you've got a different voice than the default. I'm looking at doing a commercial application but my boss doesn't want to shell out the $ before we do some real world testing of * and Festival. Specifically, I'm looking for a female voice, preferably US English. Any suggestions? Thanks, MC

Replace nospam with ssb22 to reply by email. Hi, Does anybody have pointers about using SAPI 5 speech synthesis engines (sometimes called a "SAPI 5 voices") under Wine? I've searched all over the Web but can't find any mention of it. Although English speech is well-supported in Linux, speech in languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean is not. Commercial offerings are

I?ve got an interesting problem and am wondering if anyone can shed light ? I am running Asterisk on RHEL Server release 5.2 connecting to an Avaya Definity G3R via a Digium TE220. Asterisk 1.4.20 Zaptel 1.4.4 Libpri 1.4.4 MySQL 5.0.45 Festival Speech Synthesis System: 1.95 We have about 4200 accounts in a MySQL db. Asterisk retrieves the user information from the database, festival tts says

I am trying to use festival (latest version 1.4.3) I have downloaded all the files needed and patched it with the provided diff. festival does work and does tts fine. but when I call Festival either from an extention or an AGI script, I get this in my asterisk messages log, but no sound on the channels (H323 or SIP) - they (the clients) just say "trying" and then hangup... Sep 24

Hello, Suppose a dialplan such as: exten => 6004,1,Answer exten => 6004,n,Wait(1) exten => 6004,n,SayDigits(1) exten => 6004,n,Festival(This is a test of Festival) exten => 6004,n,Hangup When watching in the CLI, I see this: == Using SIP RTP CoS mark 5 -- Executing [6004 at internal:1] Answer("SIP/505-00000004", "") in new stack -- Executing [6004 at

I have been reading asterisks and everything I can get my hands on for the past week. I want to know what class processor is the bare minimum I need for a four port Asterisk installation? Thanks

Was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for getting the linux version of cepstral voices working with Asterisk. The cepstral site states that the voices work with asterisk, but I haven't been able to find anything with google or in the handbook on this. Thanks in advance, Bruce