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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:21 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded for Asterisk.
Regards,
Sanjay.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:41 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

At 15:21 3/11/2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:
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What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts
recorded for Asterisk.

Regards,
Sanjay.

What have you tried so far?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:58 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:21 PM,
<sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com> wrote:
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What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded for Asterisk.

Because of the number of existing recordings, wouldn't Allison be the
best and most cost-effective solution?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:00 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:21, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com
wrote:
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What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded
for Asterisk.

We decided to record our own. We set up a recording studio, and that has
worked out very well for us.

Let me know if we can help.

Ron
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:24 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:

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Thanks everyone for the reply.

Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.

I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.

Cepstral with Allison is only $30.

I did a demo IVR for a potential client and it was hard to tell the TTS
bits from the human bits. If I took the time to learn Cepstral's markup
language I probably could have fooled myself Smile

Thanks in advance,
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:33 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

Thanks everyone for the reply.

Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.

I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.

Regards,
Sanjay.

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From: "Ron Joffe" <rjoffe at yahoo.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:30:44 AM (GMT+0530) Asia/Calcutta
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:21, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com
wrote:
Quote:
What is the best alternative for getting the IVR and other prompts recorded
for Asterisk.

We decided to record our own. We set up a recording studio, and that has
worked out very well for us.

Let me know if we can help.

Ron

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:40 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

On Tuesday 11 March 2008 16:33:38 sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com
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I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve
the sound quality of Festival somehow.

No, but you could try Cepstral:
http://www.cepstral.com/

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:49 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:
Quote:
Thanks everyone for the reply.

Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.

I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.
Cepstrel is good, cheap, and now has an Allison (yes, THAT Allison) voice!

Steve
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:04 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 03:03:38AM +0530, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:

Quote:
Thanks everyone for the reply.
Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.
I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.

What language do you want?

There are UK English versions of the 1.2 release available from
www.tel.net, I should have the 1.4 version up very soon. They were
recorded by Jay Benham (links from the site).

In terms of text-to-speech there are several solutions, have a look at
www.talklets.com who run a text-to-speech (well accessibility, but TTS
as part of it) software as a service solution.

Steve

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:45 pm    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

Thanks a lot everyone, I will go ahead and try Cepstral.

Regards,
Sanjay.

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From: "Steve Edwards" <asterisk.org at sedwards.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 2:54:50 AM (GMT+0530) Asia/Calcutta
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts recorded.

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:

Quote:
Thanks everyone for the reply.

Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.

I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.

Cepstral with Allison is only $30.

I did a demo IVR for a potential client and it was hard to tell the TTS
bits from the human bits. If I took the time to learn Cepstral's markup
language I probably could have fooled myself Smile

Thanks in advance,
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Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:13 am    Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best alternative for getting prompts record Reply with quote

Steve Edwards wrote:
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, sanjay.rajdev at featherstoneinformatics.com wrote:


Quote:
Thanks everyone for the reply.

Till now we had simple IVR so we recorded it ourself.
Now I have a requirement where customer needs a customized message to be played to customer. I am basically looking for some Text to Speech software that would be cost effective (most probably a open source) and would convert Text to Speech.

I tried Fetival, but the quality of the sound is not good. Can we improve the sound quality of Festival somehow.


Cepstral with Allison is only $30.

I did a demo IVR for a potential client and it was hard to tell the TTS
bits from the human bits. If I took the time to learn Cepstral's markup
language I probably could have fooled myself Smile

Thanks in advance,
Are there any tools like these for Dutch language Asterisk installs?...
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