--- 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
If the price is truly $50 for a system to deploy ATT's solution, I and my customers would gleefully pay that price rather than fiddling around with festival and getting a decent-sound phonetic library installed and debugged.
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