> 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. >
Thats a very easy ROI since one hour of a technical resource to setup Festival is easily double the 30 USD. Maybe the Cepestral folks have figured out that making a little money from alot of people will be much better than alot from only a few. I'll buy Cepestral and skip the pizza on Friday night. Net result will be about break even!!!! _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users