asterisk users - Oct 2005 - IBM tts engine integration

I wrote a very very simple shell script and an even simplier macro to
use the IBM TTS engine within asterisk for prompts.  While its free you
are limited on the number of requests you can do within a day.

If anyone is interested its available at
http://www.0xdecafbad.com/Asterisk-Text-to-Speech.html


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Works with 1.2 bets!

Voice is MUCH better than festival!

John Novack

trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
>I wrote a very very simple shell script and an even simplier macro to
>use the IBM TTS engine within asterisk for prompts.  While its free you
>are limited on the number of requests you can do within a day.
>
>If anyone is interested its available at
>http://www.0xdecafbad.com/Asterisk-Text-to-Speech.html
>
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On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:53:03 -0700, you wrote:
>I wrote a very very simple shell script and an even simplier macro to
>use the IBM TTS engine within asterisk for prompts.  While its free you
>are limited on the number of requests you can do within a day.
>
>If anyone is interested its available at
>http://www.0xdecafbad.com/Asterisk-Text-to-Speech.html

Nice solution, but what will you do if/when IBM pulls their
demonstration page?  Hopefully, by then you will have cached all of
the necessary recordings.

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 08:56 +0100, razza wrote:
> trixter wrote:
> do you have a url for an online demo?  
> 
> http://www.scansoft.com/speechworks/realspeak/demo/default.asp
Thanks its late so I prolly wont do this right now, but its a post
method (same as sitepal and it looks easier than sitepal was).  I will
read their tos and make sure that anything I do wont violate that.  100
char limit it seems.  Shouldnt be that hard, but I will be using netcat
instead of wget/fetch.  

This does sound better..  if its usable the voice selection is also a
lot more robust, and that is something I didnt like about the 2 choices
with ibm (although my guess is that you can brute force voices out of
ibm, its 3 letters in the url, I just didnt want to play those games
incase they cried foul).


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On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 08:56 +0100, razza wrote:
> trixter wrote:
> do you have a url for an online demo?  
> 
> http://www.scansoft.com/speechworks/realspeak/demo/default.asp
I wont be coding this.  It isnt hard if someone else wants to fine, I
personally wont though.  The reason is quite simple:

This demo is for demonstration purposes only. For other use, please
contact our Sales Office.

I am not gonna violate something so plain :)  However they dont appear
to have much by way of security (although I didnt verify cookies I dont
think they are using them in any way for this, and that is trivial ...).
Its a simple form post, with variables for the language and voice as
well as content.  Anyone that understands basical HTTP should be able to
figure out what to send, and how to save the resulting 8khz wav file,
like with netcat for example, or perhaps a simple LWP perl script, and
then use sox to convert, save and blah blah blah.

perl would likely be easier than netcat, and most systems now require it
(I avoid it because its not mandatory it be on a system, however I
havent seen one without bourne shell).


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Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com     Bret McDanel
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US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200
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