Cepestral was installed and working within 10 mins of my decision to purchase it. It's $30.00 and can be purchased on their web site and they give you a download. They have a demp on their website that will do text-to-speech and give you a .wav file to download and listen to. Download, unpack it, run their install.sh, answer a couple of questions, read the man page and you're done.
With Festival I had to figure out exactly which tarballs to download (there was a total of 18 tarballs to download if you count all the Festival voices plus the MBROLA voices), then I had to figure out how to install Festival, then MBROLA, I never have figured out how to actually INSTALL festival, I just run it out of the source directory. It's very picky about paths and such. I'm not a big fan of commercial software. For TTS most of the software either is Windows only or costs several thousand dollars (and sometimes both). If it's a choice between spending two thousand for something like Rhetorical TTS or using Festival, I'll pick Festival. If it's a choice between spending thirty dollars for a TTS system or using Festival, I'll happily spend the $30. On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 02:59, rnc Info Lists wrote: > > Some of you may know me as ManxPower from #Asterisk at irc.freenode.,net > > > > I've posted my demp weather report Asterisk AGI script at > > http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/downloads/ > > > > Eric, > Can you comment on the difference in installation ease for Festival and > Cepstral? > > Regards, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Sample configs, scripts, more : http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/ BTEL Consulting 504-899-1387 or 850-484-4545 or 877-677-9643 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
