Neospeech does have the best voices.
I looked at Neospeech months ago and talked to a rep. Then he quoted me a price per port of over $1000.00. Looks like they really have done some big price adjustments. -----Original Message----- From: Saeed Ahmad <saeedahmad1...@gmail.com> To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Sent: Fri, 22 May 2009 2:01 am Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] text to speech IVRs and MOH Thanks guys for a detailed reply specially pete. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Peter P GMX <prometheus...@gmx.net> wrote: Thanks for this overwiev. One question: How does this compare to Cepstral TTS? Best regards Peter p...@privateconnect.com schrieb: > I've spent the last 2-3 months on researching TTS and ASR for FS for a > project. ?Best TTS depends on what you consider important. ?Also, how > do you plan on using it. > > Here's some of the TTS engines I've run across with some pros/cons: > > Festivate Lite (flite) > Pros: > - Free (comes with FS) > - simple to use > - 16K voice sounds decent > - Completely customizable > Cons: > - 8K voice sounds horrible over cell phone > > NeoSpeech (VoiceWare) (around $300/port for 1 voice + $75 each addl voice) > Pros: > - My selection for best soundig voices > - Recently select by Stephen Hawkings for his voice (geek points!) > - Lots of Languages supported > - Free trial available > Cons: > - Custom C-Based API (FS interface coming soon) > - Large file size (Engine + SDK + 1 Voice = 900MB) > - Support is lacking (Company beed in Korean, time zone issues, etc) > > Nuance ($500/port for 1 voice) > Pros: > - Wide Variety of Products > - Support MRCP > - Supports ASR as well (add'l fees) > - Excellent support > - Free trial > - Decent sounding voices at 8K and 16K > - Wide range of tuning parameters > Cons: > - Pricey > - Limited voice selection > - Limited support for 64-bit linux > > AT&T (NaturalVoice) (no pricing info available) > Pros: > - Big company (solid in marketplace) > - Good suppport (user and developer) > - ASP model means no software to maintain > Cons: > - ASP model incurs delay > - Voices sound too digitized > - Limited support for 64-bit linux > > Loquendo ($500/port for 1 voice + 15% addl voice) > Pros: > - Good sounding voices (almost as good as NeoSpeech) > - Wide variety of languages > - Excellent support > - Has free 30 day trial > - Supports MRCP > - Support ASR and Voice Recognition as well. (add'l fees) > - Small footprint (< 150MB) > Cons: > - Pricey > - Complicated install process > - Limited management/tuning capabilities > > In the end, it was down to NeoSpeech or Loquendo for our application. > ?We are currently running tests with NeoSpeech and assuming all goes > well, we will select them. ?Though don't let that color your opinion > too much after several "focus groups" we discovered the most important > element in the equation is does your customer/boss like the sound of > the voices, and that is a completely subjective decision. > > > -pete > > ? ? -------- Original Message -------- > ? ? Subject: [Freeswitch-users] text to speech IVRs and MOH > ? ? From: Saeed Ahmad <saeedahmad1...@gmail.com> > ? ? Date: Tue, May 19, 2009 12:40 am > ? ? To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org > > ? ? Hi all, > > ? ? Could you guys recommend me any online text to speech IVR software > ? ? which works OK with FS. i am using AT&T site and for some IVRs i > ? ? get sample rate errors. Also some resource to download more MOH > ? ? wav files. > > ? ? Many thanks > ? ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ? ? _______________________________________________ > ? ? Freeswitch-users mailing list > ? ? Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org > ? ? http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > ? ? UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > ? ? http://www.freeswitch.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freeswitch-users mailing list > Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org _______________________________________________ Freeswitch-users mailing list Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
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