Had to interject here. Please visit these guys: http://www.cepstral.com/
Its a commercial venture from the guys who write Festival. Some of the voice demo's I've seen them give are creepily good. There is a demo on the site to check out if you want to see how good their voices are. They do custom work as well, or at least they used to. -Steve On 15 Jul 2003, Jared Smith wrote: > Would you mind giving us a few examples on how we can make festival > sound better? (Some sample festival configs would be nice!) > > Jared > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:41, Chris Albertson wrote: > > --- Jeff Noxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Many of you are familiar with how lousy Festival sounds. > > > > > > AT&T has a product, NaturalVoices, that sounds much better. There > > > are > > > male & female voice fonts for US/UK/Indian English, French, Spanish, > > > and German. > > > > Festival only sounds bad because you are using it in a very simple way. > > It comes with a "demo" text to speech application that really is no > > more then a demo but most people just use the demo app and think > > Festival itself sounds bad. You need to read a bit more. Also at > > the cmu.edu web site are some tools for building your own voices. > > These can sound very good and speeak other languages. > > If you work at it the sound can be very natural. > > > > ===== > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users