Wow, I thought they charged for this application on a per-channel basis. I would spend $50 for this in a heartbeat. I would need English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Arabic & Russian...
-GSR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Noxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:07 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Poll - Would you pay $30-$50 for high quality speech synthesis? > Many of you are familiar with how lousy Festival sounds. > > AT&T has a product, NaturalVoices, that sounds much better. There are > male & female voice fonts for US/UK/Indian English, French, Spanish, > and German. > > I am considering offering a linux-based text-to-speech engine based on > the NaturalVoices runtime. An asterisk module would also be provided, > making it easy to add natural sounding synthesis to Asterisk applications. > You could also use it for other purposes, such as home automation. > > After discussing royalties with AT&T, I have concluded that I can probably > offer such a product at the following prices: > > Runtime - $30 intro price with one voice font & one processor > Extra voices/languages - $15 each > Extra processors - $15 each > > Depending on demand, the price may rise to $50 at some point. The lower > the demand, the higher the price, due to AT&T's royalty structure. > > There is a demo of the synthesis engine here: > > http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/ > > If you would be willing to pay for this kind of software, please e-mail > me privately (not to the list). Please indicate your purchase timeframe > as well as the number of licenses, extra voices, and processors you > would want. > > Regards, > > Jeff / 'Bicster' on IRC > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
