Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Take a look at http://www.ispeech.org/ I implemented Speech-Recognition. The API is well documented and easy. Am 10.01.2014 21:16, schrieb Jai Rangi: Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Here is list of top multi language TTS engines 1. Acapela 2. Ivona 3. Loguendo 4. Cepstral. As per my information, they all work with open source Asterisk however please contact with their support for more information Regards *Tahir Almas* Managing Partner ICT Innovations http://www.ictinnovations.com Leveraging open source in ICT On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Thorsten Göllner t...@ovm-group.com wrote: Take a look at http://www.ispeech.org/ I implemented Speech-Recognition. The API is well documented and easy. Am 10.01.2014 21:16, schrieb Jai Rangi: Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Luminvox is one.. There are others out there.. Here's an article by Ward Mundy that might help:http://nerdvittles.com/?p=7448 From: jpra...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:43 -0800 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Actually, scratch that.. Luminvox is not text to speech it's speech recognition software. Got this mixed up and turned around :-) Anyhow, see the link I posted earlier, it's got some good info to get you started. From: tjrl...@live.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:42:27 -0600 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine Luminvox is one.. There are others out there.. Here's an article by Ward Mundy that might help:http://nerdvittles.com/?p=7448 From: jpra...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:43 -0800 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Lumenvox is actually both... but hard to justify for TTS given all the freebies... On 01/10/2014 02:50 PM, Todd R. wrote: Actually, scratch that.. Luminvox is not text to speech it's speech recognition software. Got this mixed up and turned around :-) Anyhow, see the link I posted earlier, it's got some good info to get you started. From: tjrl...@live.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:42:27 -0600 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine Luminvox is one.. There are others out there.. Here's an article by Ward Mundy that might help: http://nerdvittles.com/?p=7448 From: jpra...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:43 -0800 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
On 10/1/14 8:16 pm, Jai Rangi wrote: Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. We recently used Ivona for a fairly complex IVR project (multi-lingual, including pronunciation of foreign names). http://www.ivona.com Not free, but we found the sound quality considerably better than we were able to get from either Festival or Cepstral. Worth bearing in mind that we are based in the UK, so our primary concern was for good quality British English voices. I cannot comment on other variants such as Australian or American. Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=i always find google translate works well http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=frq=je trouve toujours google translate fonctionne bien On Jan 10, 2014 3:17 PM, Jai Rangi jpra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine
Thank you every one, Yes google's translate is really good. http://zaf.github.io/asterisk-googletts/ But I dont like the fact that have to go over the wire every time. Looking for some thing to install on local server. -Jai On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Darryl Moore dar...@moores.ca wrote: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=enq=i always find google translate works well http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=frq=je trouve toujours google translate fonctionne bien On Jan 10, 2014 3:17 PM, Jai Rangi jpra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good. Regards, -Jai -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text-To-Speech synthesizer--help required
srinivas Antarvedi wrote: Hello users, Actually i wanted to implement Text-To-Speech engine from cepstral voice using swift application i tried the documentation of doing this and i was unsuccessful at doing this work with asterisk can anybody please help me out finding the solution to installation http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DTSwift+Cepstral+AGI+Wrapper Works fine for me. -- Warm Regards, Lee If I don't see you around here, I'll see you around, hear? ___ --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
[asterisk-users] text to speech
Although these are web based might be some interesting api's to utlise. http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). ___ --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
[asterisk-users] Text-To-Speech synthesizer--help required
Hello users, Actually i wanted to implement Text-To-Speech engine from cepstral voice using swift application i tried the documentation of doing this and i was unsuccessful at doing this work with asterisk can anybody please help me out finding the solution to installation thanks in advacnce srinivas Antarvedi ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] Text-To-Speech synthesizer--help required
At 03:13 12/5/2007, srinivas Antarvedi wrote: Hello users, Actually i wanted to implement Text-To-Speech engine from cepstral voice using swift application i tried the documentation of doing this and i was unsuccessful at doing this work with asterisk can anybody please help me out finding the solution to installation thanks in advacnce srinivas Antarvedi Looking for this? http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+Festival http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Festival+installation ___ --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
R: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Hi all, I installed cepstral and patched the Makefile in asterisk/apps, but when i do 'make install' i get this error ntercom.o app_intercom.c gcc -shared -Xlinker -x -o app_intercom.so app_intercom.o gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -Xlinker -x -o app_cepstral.so app_cepstral.c -lz -lm -lceplex_uk -lceplex_fr -lswift -lceplex_us -lceplang_en -lceplang_fr -lz -ldl -L/opt/swift/lib -I/opt/swift/include /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.6/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lceplex_uk collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [app_cepstral.so] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/bristuff-0.2.0-RC8n/asterisk-1.0.9/apps' make: *** [subdirs] Error 1 In the Makefile (asterisk/apps) i put this app_voicemail.so : app_voicemail.o ifeq ($(USE_MYSQL_VM_INTERFACE),1) $(CC) $(SOLINK) -o $@ $(MLFLAGS) $ -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz else ifeq ($(USE_POSTGRES_VM_INTERFACE),1) $(CC) $(SOLINK) -o $@ $(MLFLAGS) $ -lpq else $(CC) $(SOLINK) -o $@ $(MLFLAGS) $ endif endif app_cepstral.so: app_cepstral.c $(CC) -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared -Xlinker -x -o $@ $ -lz -lm -lswift -lceplex_us -lceplang_en -lz -ldl -L/opt/swift/lib -I/opt/swift/include app_sql_postgres.o: app_sql_postgres.c $(CC) -pipe -I/usr/local/pgsql/include $(CFLAGS) -c -o app_sql_postgres.o app_sql_postgres.c Between the part that compile the voicemail anf the other one one regarding the postgres module. Anyidea ? Thanks Giordano -Messaggio originale- Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Don Inviato: lunedì 21 agosto 2006 23.32 A: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Oggetto: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Anytime I try and specify a voice when there is more than 1 voice in my voices directory...it has an error with the syntax you show here... Like I was saying in a previous post... - Original Message - From: Shane Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com; Kevin Savoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Quoting Kevin Savoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. I like Cepstral. Using the information here: http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/installing_app_cepstral.txt You can install app_cepstral after you have installed the package and libs from Cepstral. Then you can do something like this: [macro-cepstral-demo] exten = s,1,Cepstral(voice name=DuchessHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duchess./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WalterHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Walter./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=ShoutyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Shouty./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WilliamHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is William./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WhisperyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Whispery./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=RobinHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Robin./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=LindaHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Linda./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=EmilyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Emily./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DianeHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Diane./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DavidHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is David./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DuncanHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duncan./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DamienHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Damien./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=CallieHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Callie./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DogHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Dog./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=AmyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Amy./voice) --Shane This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Kevin Savoy a écrit : Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn’t cut it for commercial applications. Have you tried RealSpeak from Nuance (ex Scansoft), available at: http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/telecom/ I find that quality is very good, at least for my native language (French-France), and they have a broad choice of languages and voices. I have written app_realspeak to use it with Asterisk, in a IVR that will go on production... tomorrow :) Contact me if interested. Thanks, -- Jean-Denis Girard SysNux Systèmes Linux en Polynésie française http://www.sysnux.pf/ Tél: +689 483 527 / GSM: +689 797 527 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesnt cut it for commercial applications. We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the ATT speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival. Thanks for your input. _ Kevin Savoy Business Unit Telecom Analyst 2218 4th Ave W Williston, ND 58801 Ph: 701-774-4023 Fax: 701-774-2901 http://www.novo1.com Novo 1 is a service mark of Novo 1, Inc ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
N.B.: Please use plain text when sending to this list Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the ATT speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival. You have flite that is free and, IMHO better than festival (http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=134). I also tried Prophecy (http://www.voxeo.com/) but I'm still waiting for the Linux version as I don't have time to babysit a Windows server :) hth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Cepstral seems to sound descent...But if you have more than one voice installed (Example: different languages) I can't say it in realtime in the dialplan...I have to do a little trick like: exten = 1,1,System(/opt/swift/bin/swift -n Diane-8kHz "Hello World" -o /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/swift.wav)exten = 1,n,System(sox /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/swift.wav /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/swift.gsm)exten = 1,n,Playback(swift) When you show app cepstral in theCLI it says you can do it like this: exten= 1,1,Cepstral(voice name="William"hello world/voice) But it doesn't work for me trying to select the voice in the Dialplan just tells me my voice is missing or corrupt...but if you only have one in the voice directory it works fine... But someone else made the app_cepstral.so If I could find a correct syntax that worked I would change the source and recompile the module. - Original Message - From: Kevin Savoy To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesnt cut it for commercial applications. We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the ATT speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival. Thanks for your input. _ Kevin Savoy Business Unit Telecom Analyst 2218 4th Ave W Williston, ND 58801 Ph: 701-774-4023 Fax: 701-774-2901 http://www.novo1.com Novo 1 is a service mark of Novo 1, Inc ___--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --asterisk-users mailing listTo UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 8/18/2006 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
All I can find for Flite is for AAH, does it work as well with plain Asterisk? Is the setup the same? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Time Bandit Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:23 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech N.B.: Please use plain text when sending to this list Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the ATT speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival. You have flite that is free and, IMHO better than festival (http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=134). I also tried Prophecy (http://www.voxeo.com/) but I'm still waiting for the Linux version as I don't have time to babysit a Windows server :) hth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Quoting Kevin Savoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. I like Cepstral. Using the information here: http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/installing_app_cepstral.txt You can install app_cepstral after you have installed the package and libs from Cepstral. Then you can do something like this: [macro-cepstral-demo] exten = s,1,Cepstral(voice name=DuchessHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duchess./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WalterHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Walter./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=ShoutyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Shouty./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WilliamHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is William./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WhisperyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Whispery./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=RobinHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Robin./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=LindaHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Linda./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=EmilyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Emily./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DianeHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Diane./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DavidHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is David./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DuncanHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duncan./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DamienHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Damien./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=CallieHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Callie./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DogHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Dog./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=AmyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Amy./voice) --Shane This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
You might try runtime Dectalk for Linux available from http://www.fonix.com -- its not free, but it sounds quite nice. on Monday 08/21/2006 Time Bandit([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote N.B.: Please use plain text when sending to this list Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. We are willing to pay for a good one that works. Anyone tried the ATT speech engine? The IBM ViaVoice sounds no better then Festival. You have flite that is free and, IMHO better than festival (http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=134). I also tried Prophecy (http://www.voxeo.com/) but I'm still waiting for the Linux version as I don't have time to babysit a Windows server :) hth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
Anytime I try and specify a voice when there is more than 1 voice in my voices directory...it has an error with the syntax you show here... Like I was saying in a previous post... - Original Message - From: Shane Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com; Kevin Savoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Quoting Kevin Savoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can someone recommend a good text to speech engine that is usable by Asterisk? I have tried the Festival one and it just doesn't cut it for commercial applications. I like Cepstral. Using the information here: http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/installing_app_cepstral.txt You can install app_cepstral after you have installed the package and libs from Cepstral. Then you can do something like this: [macro-cepstral-demo] exten = s,1,Cepstral(voice name=DuchessHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duchess./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WalterHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Walter./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=ShoutyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Shouty./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WilliamHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is William./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=WhisperyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Whispery./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=RobinHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Robin./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=LindaHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Linda./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=EmilyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Emily./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DianeHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Diane./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DavidHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is David./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DuncanHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Duncan./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DamienHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Damien./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=CallieHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Callie./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=DogHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Dog./voice) exten = s,n,Cepstral(voice name=AmyHello and welcome to the world of text to speech using Cepstral. My name is Amy./voice) --Shane This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 8/18/2006 ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech
All I can find for Flite is for AAH, does it work as well with plain Asterisk? Is the setup the same? Never tried it, but it should be the same. Have a look here : http://dialogpalette.sourceforge.net/extras.html hth ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Text to speech on Asterisk - ATT?
Just wondering if anybody has got ATT Voices working for text-speech on *? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
People working on this have found that context influences the pronounciation of words. I think the root cause of this is that the human vocal tract cannot re-shape itself for different sounds instantly and must move from the previous sound to the next sound, we hear the movement. If it does instantly change then we hear it as un-natural robot-like speach. Your proposed system would sound just like what it is, a sequence of words. Good systems not only look at phonetic context but also inflection like tone, volume and pitch range and speed. Cursive hand writting is this way too. Cursive fonts don't look like real hand writting because each letter is always the same --- Matthew John Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that seems like the way to do it. You could sell it for BIG bucks. -Matt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users = Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
I must say this is basically correct BUT Remember that festival is actually based phonetically. remember that and modify your text accordingly and you might be surprised at the results. yes the standard voices do suck ! On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:04:24 -0700 (PDT), Chris Albertson wrote: People working on this have found that context influences the pronounciation of words. I think the root cause of this is that the human vocal tract cannot re-shape itself for different sounds instantly and must move from the previous sound to the next sound, we hear the movement. If it does instantly change then we hear it as un-natural robot-like speach. Your proposed system would sound just like what it is, a sequence of words. Good systems not only look at phonetic context but also inflection like tone, volume and pitch range and speed. Cursive hand writting is this way too. Cursive fonts don't look like real hand writting because each letter is always the same --- Matthew John Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that seems like the way to do it. You could sell it for BIG bucks. -Matt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users = Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users . ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
At 15:41 2003-07-15 -1000, Matthew John Darnell wrote: Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that seems like the way to do it. You could sell it for BIG bucks. Text-to-Speech (TTS) is usually either formative, created by synthesis of sounds; or concatenative, created by concatenating sounds of actual speech samples. However, concatenative TTS usually works by using small fragments of speech, not entire words. The storage requirements are much smaller, and it gives the system an opportunity to pick units of speech that match the units of speech that precede and follow them. The real trick is to get the correct posidy. Here's three sentences with the same words but each with different prosidy: I said 'yes.' I said yes? _I_ said '_yes_'???!! Both formative and concatenative systems add prosidy. Adding prosidy to whole-word concatentative systems is difficult. If you're in a buying mood, there are some excellent TTS systems available. For example, Rhetorical (http://www.rhetorical.com) has some excellent voices. And they have the funniest TTS current available is the Southern California female voice; I use it for non-serious demos (That's so totally awesome.) Commercial TTS is actually very intelligble and perfectly adequate for many tasks. -- Moshe Yudkowsky Disaggregate 2952 W Fargo Chicago, IL 60645 USA www.Disaggregate.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 773 764 8727 ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
--- Moshe Yudkowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP The real trick is to get the correct posidy. Here's three sentences with the same words but each with different prosidy: I said 'yes.' I said yes? _I_ said '_yes_'???!! Both formative and concatenative systems add prosidy. Adding prosidy to whole-word concatentative systems is difficult. The thing is that _people_ don't do text to speech. If you were to simply read one word at a time you'd sound bad too. Try it: if, ... you. ...were, ... to, ... simply, ...read, ... You sound like a robot. No, we people know what it is we are trying to comunicate if you want a synthetic voice to sound natural you will have to tell the software the _intent_ of the words not just the words. You would need a markup language for that emph I /emph said quotequestionword yes /quote/questionword now the system can apply some transformations to the pitch, speed and loudness. For interactive systems markup works because the software generating the text knows _why_ it is generating the text Reading a book for the blind is a much harder problem. The TTS system has to do the same job as a voice actor which even includes understands the emotions of characters in a novel. Very hard to do for a computer. But interactive systems can use markup to get the expresson right. And don't put down festival. Many (most?) of the comercial systems _are_ festival. you, = Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
At 10:11 2003-07-16 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: SNIP if you want a synthetic voice to sound natural you will have to tell the software the _intent_ of the words not just the words. You would need a markup language for that emph I /emph said quotequestionword yes /quote/questionword The W3C has a TTS markup language, SSML, http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/. However, SSML is not a _semantic_ markup language. SSML gives directives about prosidy and pronunciation. And don't put down festival. Many (most?) of the comercial systems _are_ festival. I am not putting down Festival. However, I don't believe that many or most commercial systems are based on Festival. I think we should take any further discussion off-list. Regards, Moshe -- Moshe Yudkowsky Disaggregate 2952 W Fargo Chicago, IL 60645 USA http://www.Disaggregate.com ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: At 10:11 2003-07-16 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote: SNIP if you want a synthetic voice to sound natural you will have to tell the software the _intent_ of the words not just the words. You would need a markup language for that emph I /emph said quotequestionword yes /quote/questionword The W3C has a TTS markup language, SSML, http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/. However, SSML is not a _semantic_ markup language. SSML gives directives about prosidy and pronunciation. Two interesting things about SSML (which used to be called Sable). One - there is almost no support for it amongst the commercial TTS packages. Two - even the people who wrote the SSML spec don't seem to have fully implemented it. The markup in most commercial TTS software is both proprietary and cranky. And don't put down festival. Many (most?) of the comercial systems _are_ festival. I am not putting down Festival. However, I don't believe that many or most commercial systems are based on Festival. You are wrong. All the packages I know, except Eloquence and maybe RealSpeak, are based at some level on Festival. The ones derived from Naturally Speaking have most of the Festival directories still in place. Strange, but true. Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that seems like the way to do it. You could sell it for BIG bucks. -Matt ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text to Speech - Someone needs to do this
Matthew John Darnell wrote: Why hasn't someone found 50 people who sound alike, put them in sound studios and record the 10,000 most commonly used words. You would all differnent forms of the 1,000 most words, i.e. leading, trailing, question etc. You can synthesize the other 0.05% when you run into them. With hard drives so big, processors so fast and EXT3 that can handle 30,000+ files in a single directory that seems like the way to do it. You could sell it for BIG bucks. People have done this. The results are terrible. You couldn't charge big bucks. You'd have trouble giving it away. Regards, Steve ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
