--- Jared Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you mind giving us a few examples on how we can make festival > sound better? (Some sample festival configs would be nice!) > > Jared
See my later post where I say "Sorry here is the URL" http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/ You might want to look at "Festvox" which is a tool for creating new festival databases and also at "sable" which is a markup language that allows to you to pass hints to festival like this: As a test of marked-up numbers. Here we have a year <SAYAS MODE="date">1998</SAYAS>, an ordinal <SAYAS MODE="ordinal">1998</SAYAS>, a cardinal <SAYAS MODE="cardinal">1998</SAYAS>, a literal <SAYAS MODE="literal">1998</SAYAS>, and phone number <SAYAS MODE="phone">1998</SAYAS>. So, one way to improve the voice quality is to have the software which generates the text to be spoken embed some mark-up THe software would "know" if it is generating a phone number, street addres or a error message and could ad the required marks If you poke around you will find a huge body of software that is centered around festival in some way. In fact I would not be surprized at all to find the the AT&T voice synthizer is festival based. I see that At&T is partially funding the work done at CMU and festival has no restriction or comercial use (It is NOT GPL'd it's more like X11) > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:41, Chris Albertson wrote: > > --- Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Festival only sounds bad because you are using it in a very simple > way. > > It comes with a "demo" text to speech application that really is no > > more then a demo but most people just use the demo app and think > > Festival itself sounds bad. You need to read a bit more. Also at > > the cmu.edu web site are some tools for building your own voices. > > These can sound very good and speeak other languages. > > If you work at it the sound can be very natural. > > > > ===== > > Chris Albertson > > Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cell: 310-990-7550 > > Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > KG6OMK > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
