The voice talent is 'Karen' from www.gmvoices.com. As in, "My name is Plankton, and this is my computer wife, Karen".
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Todd Hodgen <[email protected]> wrote: > If you search the archives, I think you will find a discussion in the past > about the voice used for sipXecs. I seem to recall it about 6 months ago. > They are available, so you should be able to use them for customer messages > that match. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Black, Dave > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] IVR recordings > > I've used www.pbxprompts.com for professionally recorded AA's. If you > have long prompts, they can get expensive, however I'm generally > impressed with overall quality. Tiffany's voice is close to the > existing voice used in sipexcs, but not exact. It would be great if > voice talent used in the sipx voice mail system could be accessed for > custom prompts to keep everything consistent. > > Dave B. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric > Varsanyi > Sent: April 20, 2010 1:54 PM > To: Francis Tinio > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] IVR recordings > > I've been making some simple AA prompts by going to Cepstrals demo page > and typing in the annotated phoneme stuff (starting with just english > then making it fancier to tweak it to sound right) and when it sounds > right I just 'save as' the file as a .wav file locally and then upload > it to the AA using the UI. If I end up being happy with these longer > term (I haven't gotten intonation to really sound good yet, I need to > spend some more time with the manual I guess) I'll get their licensed > version which can simply generate the wav file from a command line > invocation. > > -Eric > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: > > > A script would definitely be helpful. Thanks! > > > > So for now, how do sipx users record the IVR from TTS? I'd hate to > put a mic in front of my PC lol.... > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Josh Patten wrote: > > > >> Depends on how much money you want to spend and how often the prompts > > >> will change. If the prompts change all the time, go with a TTS voice. > If > >> the prompt will never change you should probably get a professional > >> recording. > >> > >> On a related not there still is not a decent mechanism for recording > IVR > >> prompts in sipX. When you have 30 IVR's like I will in about 6 months > it > >> tends to get difficult to manage the recordings. If end users could > >> actually record prompts for specific IVR's then this issue would be > >> solved and I wouldn't have to babysit them to record changes. > >> > >> I am contemplating writing an Asterisk application to record IVR > prompts > >> much like I did for "serial paging" (to get around the ~25 user > >> limitation of the paging system in sipX). I don't think I've posted > it > >> but essentially it's a couple of PHP scripts that allow you to record > a > >> message and then once you are finished recording Asterisk dials each > >> page group defined in the PHP file in sequential order. If anyone is > >> interested I can post a wiki page. > >> > >> Josh Patten > >> Assistant Network Administrator > >> Brazos County IT Dept. > >> (979) 361-4676 > >> > >> > >> On 4/20/2010 8:52 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: > >>> Thanks. > >>> > >>> On a side note, are you going to implement Cepstral to use for > incoming operator greetings as well? Or for that part still advisable to > purchase real voice over? > >>> > >>> I'm contemplating whether to use a speech synthesis or a real live > recording. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Josh Patten wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> The only way you're going to get truly human sounding voices is > when a human records them. Any text to speech voice is going to require > some tweaking to sound human. The AT&T voices may have been a bad > example, I'm sure there are better ones out there. Download a demo of > cepstral and play with the voices. They can be made to sound pretty > good. > >>>> > >>>> Josh Patten > >>>> Assistant Network Administrator > >>>> Brazos County IT Dept. > >>>> (979) 361-4676 > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 4/20/2010 8:45 AM, Francis Tinio wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> those are computer voices similar to AT&T's natural voices right? > How do they compare to an actual voice over of a real person? I've > heard demos of the AT&T and at time it sounded robotic. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Josh Patten wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> 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/ > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > -- ====================== Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: [email protected] LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://www.myitdepartment.net/gethelp/ Why do mathematicians always confuse Halloween and Christmas? 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