On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Danny Nicholas<da...@debsinc.com> wrote: > Cepstral and Festival are both “Free”. In Cepstral, you pay a license fee > for the voice you use. In Festival, you tune the mechanical voice the way > you want. So if you want “Truly free”, choose Festival. If you want a > Human, “Professional” voice, Cepstral offers a reasonably priced product.
I've never seen prices for Cepstral, but another commercial product is AT&T Natural Voices. http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/ I will say that Festival sounds better now than it did a few years ago. I don't know the exact date, but at some point between when we chose to go with Natural Voices and now, Festival released a new algorithm that sounds dramatically better than it used to. I also really love the Scottish voices that come with Festival. They're improper for my usage, but if you have a business catering to customers where those accents would be appropriate it's a nice product. _______________________________________________ -- 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
