In my experience people are VERY turned off by the free ones, such as those provided by festival and eSpeak. I even went to all the trouble of installing . We are planning to purchase cepstral voices for both english and spanish. Though they aren't the best voices available, they are much less expensive than something like AT&T natural voices. The redistribution license (note this is different from a concurrency license) and 3 voices costs something like $290 and the nice thing about cepstral is it supports SSML: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/ so you can easily control how the voice sounds. I even went to all the trouble of installing HTS voices: http://hts.sp.nitech.ac.jp/?Voice%20Demos with Festival and still could not get it to sound human because of the intonation issues with Festival. eSpeak has a much better intonation engine but the voices sound stifled and robotic and the HTS voices only work with Festival.
Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 4/20/2010 8:22 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: > Hey. > > Just want some feedback on which company you guys use for IVR recordings? We > currently have a live attendant configured but would be changing to IVR soon. > Anyone care to share their thoughts on this? > > You use free IVR responses voice overs or professional paid? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ > _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
