Thanks William and John, I'll look again for that download. Comments
below...
--On Sunday, July 10, 2005 1:50 PM +0200 Wilson Pickett
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FWIW? I bought that voice and I find it amusing, but not ready for
prime time. I had it read articles from a publication and it was
ludicrous. I can understand the people talking about ATT, I think I
heard a demo that was very convincing.
What is ATT? Is it another text to speech engine? I installed Festival a
few days ago and have been playing with it. It sounds okay, but I decided
to look to see if I could find something better. Some searching on this
list and elsewhere revealed that people were raving about Cepstral, so I
figured I would try it. I found their demo page and, honestly, didn't
think it sounded much better than Festival. But I like that it had
different voice options and Festival seems to have an Irish accent. Not
that I mind an Irish accent, but in the US it would not be expected.
Is there another product I should be looking at? I don't even know for
sure what I am going to do with it yet, but I am certain I'll think of
something. This is too cool not to use, but only if it is useful.
So much depends on what you are trying to do. I just wanted to have a
way to allow asterisk to talk in a demo, to show the concept.
Unfortunately, showing a talking server with Cepestral's David is
little like showing a prototype website: people don't always have the
imagination (like we all do here :) to see what this would be like
when actually done (or using a better voice in this case).
People can be turned off very quickly. That's exactly why, whatever I end
up doing with this, it needs to sound clear and be understandable. No one
gives anything a second chance :(
Jim
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