John Vogel wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, Dean > > I've tried ATT Natural Voices > (http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php) and Microsoft Speech > Server just to see how the current state-of-the-art TTS performs. They do > fine with easy names like "John" and "Smith" but even something as simple as > "Martinez" gets mangled (accent on the wrong syllable). > > In general TTS seems to work better on first names (which tend to be > shorter) then last names. > > Regards, > John > >
John, I've been using Cepstal quite a bit personally and the pronunciations seems to be pretty decent. (Using mostly the "William" voice.) Using either odd spellings or better yet, using SSML (http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/) you can fine tune the pronunciations quite a bit. I wrote an AGI for cepstral a while back that you can use (or you can call its functions directly from the dialplan). http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DTSwift+Cepstral+AGI+Wrapper It's written with Freepascal and the source is available from the page above. I have an i386 binary available as well if you don't want to compile it (email me privately for it). I also added an class for Cepstral to the AsterPas FastAGI Script Server (http://www.datatrakpos.com/pos/datatalk/asterpas.aspx) if you're into pascal programming. -- Warm Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
