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 sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org >> 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 sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > 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 sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org 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/
