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
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