[Freeswitch-users] text to speech IVRs and MOH

Fri May 22 09:03:30 PDT 2009

 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 <saeedahmad1981 at gmail.com>
To: freeswitch-users at 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 <Prometheus001 at gmx.net> wrote:

Thanks for this overwiev.

One question: How does this compare to Cepstral TTS?

Best regards

Peter

pete at 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 <saeedahmad1981 at gmail.com>

> ? ? Date: Tue, May 19, 2009 12:40 am
> ? ? To: freeswitch-users at 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
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