asterisk users - Aug 2006 - Text to Speech

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> Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by
Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for
commercial applications.
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> We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the AT&T
speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival.
You have flite that is free and, IMHO better than festival
(http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=134).

I also tried Prophecy (http://www.voxeo.com/) but I'm still waiting
for the Linux version as I don't have time to babysit a Windows server
:)

hth

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Quoting Kevin Savoy <ksavoy@novo1.com>:
> Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by
> Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for
> commercial applications.
I like Cepstral.

Using the information here:
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/installing_app_cepstral.txt

You can install app_cepstral after you have installed the package and libs from
Cepstral.

Then you can do something like this:

[macro-cepstral-demo]
exten => s,1,Cepstral(<voice name="Duchess">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Duchess.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Walter">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Walter.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Shouty">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Shouty.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="William">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is William.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Whispery">Hello and
welcome to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Whispery.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Robin">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Robin.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Linda">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Linda.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Emily">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Emily.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Diane">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Diane.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="David">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is David.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Duncan">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Duncan.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Damien">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Damien.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Callie">Hello and welcome
to the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Callie.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Dog">Hello and welcome to
the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Dog.</voice>)
exten => s,n,Cepstral(<voice name="Amy">Hello and welcome to
the world of text to speech using
Cepstral.  My name is Amy.</voice>)



--Shane

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Kevin Savoy a ?crit :
> Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by
> Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn?t cut it for
> commercial applications.
Have you tried RealSpeak from Nuance (ex Scansoft), available at:
	http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/telecom/
I find that quality is very good, at least for my native language
(French-France), and they have a broad choice of languages and voices.

I have written app_realspeak to use it with Asterisk, in a IVR that will
go on production... tomorrow :)

Contact me if interested.


Thanks,
--
Jean-Denis Girard

SysNux                  Syst?mes Linux en Polyn?sie fran?aise
http://www.sysnux.pf/   T?l: +689 483 527 / GSM: +689 797 527