Hi,
I'm using Festival. I know, original voices are not so good, but additional
and much better voices can be obtained for free also....
I have no doubt, that commercial solutions are better, but for me those
voices (HTS) are good enough....
Regards,
Rob.
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From: "Peter Hsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing
Dean,
I'm looking at some of the same questions, so the answers will be
interesting to see.
I'm fairly new at Asterisk as well, but I believe Festival is a free TTS
plug-in for Asterisk.
I don't know about the underlying details of Asterisk, so I don't know how
easily it would integrate with natural voices. I remember that natural
voices ran as a server. To use it, you would essentially pass it your text
string, and it would return your audio file. I'm fairly certain this would
plug into asterisk fairly easily.
You can find some vendors of natural voices that will give you bulk
discounts on the port pricing as well. I remember someone quoting me as low
as 250 a port, depending on the number of ports.
Peter Hsu
p.s. I do believe you need the SDK.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean McEvoy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Text to Speech pricing
What are people's experience with implementing Good quality text to
speech. AT & T natural voices is our preferred product (I don't think
Cepstral is equal in quality) but I am having difficulty getting a clear
answer on pricing for using it. I've heard anecdotally that its $995.00 for
the Server Development Kit and $350.00 per port. That seems very steep. Is
there better pricing around for similar quality. do you need the SDK?
Has anyone implemented AT & T on Asterisk is the implementation pretty
straight forward?
Can anyone lend any advice on pricing and ease of implementation for this
text to speech product or any others?
Thanks
Dean
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