> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fort > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:53 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [asterisk-users] cepstral vs festival > > I'm about to begin working on an ivr project to do database backed > scheduling. I would like to use text to speech in some places. What are > the differences in using festival vs. Cepstral? How are they similar, how > are they different? Is one really better than the other? How and Why?
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Matt Gibson wrote: > In my experience cepstral has always had much nicer sounding voices, but I > haven't tinkered too much with either. There is a reason one is pay and one > free though J I believe cepstral is still offering demo's, I'd download each > and see which one gives you the performance you're looking for. Way back in the day, festival was awful and Cepstral as almost acceptable. Now, especially with their Allison font, Cepstral is good enough than you can't always tell the difference -- even without using their markup language. The "fit" with the "live" Allison's prompts included with Asterisk is great. It's fantastic for demos. You can refine the wording of your prompts before committing to "live talent." You may decide that the tts prompts are good enough. I invoke swift (Cepstral's command line tts tool) to create my prompts from my makefile so it's easy to make changes and everything is documented. Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
