[Freeswitch-users] Fwd: FreeSWITCH TTS Voice Prompt Generator

[Alex Lake]

I think even they are confused about their pricing for non-real time use.
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julian Pawlowski 
> <julian at pawlowski.me <mailto:julian at pawlowski.me>> wrote:
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>     Hi Cal,
>
>     thanks for having a look to the packages.
>
>     On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media
>     Ltd] <cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk
>     <mailto:cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk>> wrote:
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>         Have a look at Ivona.. I just compared several of the
>         sentences in one of those repo files from the google 16k, to
>         the German man/women on the Ivona TTS, and the Ivona one
>         sounds a LOT better.
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>
>     I had an eye on Ivona already. The problem is it's not as free as
>     Google or Bing TTS. There is only a 60 days trial and the actual
>     pricing after the beta period is also unclear.
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>
> I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've 
> just sent them an email asking to clarify.
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>     At least the german voice from Google is IMHO as good as the voice
>     from Ivona (in fact it's even more applicable as it sounds more
>     formal while the Ivona female voice might have a slightly Berlin
>     accent or so).
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>
> I'm not a German speaker so I can't comment on the accent - but I'd 
> have to disagree about the quality from Google on the German voice 
> sounding as good as the Ivona one.. there is clear choppyness on the 
> Google voice, where as the Ivona one sounds more clean.
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>
>     Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with Invona (also now
>     that Amazon has acquired it).
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>
> Nice, I didn't realise they got acquired
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>
>     Cheers,
>     Julian
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