<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Neospeech does have the best voices. </font><br>
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<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I looked at Neospeech months ago and talked to a rep. <br>
Then he quoted me a price per port of over $1000.00. Looks like they really have done some big price adjustments.</font><br>
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From: Saeed Ahmad <saeedahmad1981@gmail.com><br>
To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 22 May 2009 2:01 am<br>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] text to speech IVRs and MOH<br>
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<div>Thanks guys for a detailed reply specially pete.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Peter P GMX <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Prometheus001@gmx.net">Prometheus001@gmx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Thanks for this overwiev.<br>
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One question: How does this compare to Cepstral TTS?<br>
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Best regards<br>
Peter<br>
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<a href="mailto:pete@privateconnect.com">pete@privateconnect.com</a> schrieb:<br>
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<div class="h5">> I've spent the last 2-3 months on researching TTS and ASR for FS for a<br>
> project. Best TTS depends on what you consider important. Also, how<br>
> do you plan on using it.<br>
><br>
> Here's some of the TTS engines I've run across with some pros/cons:<br>
><br>
> Festivate Lite (flite)<br>
> Pros:<br>
> - Free (comes with FS)<br>
> - simple to use<br>
> - 16K voice sounds decent<br>
> - Completely customizable<br>
> Cons:<br>
> - 8K voice sounds horrible over cell phone<br>
><br>
> NeoSpeech (VoiceWare) (around $300/port for 1 voice + $75 each addl voice)<br>
> Pros:<br>
> - My selection for best soundig voices<br>
> - Recently select by Stephen Hawkings for his voice (geek points!)<br>
> - Lots of Languages supported<br>
> - Free trial available<br>
> Cons:<br>
> - Custom C-Based API (FS interface coming soon)<br>
> - Large file size (Engine + SDK + 1 Voice = 900MB)<br>
> - Support is lacking (Company beed in Korean, time zone issues, etc)<br>
><br>
> Nuance ($500/port for 1 voice)<br>
> Pros:<br>
> - Wide Variety of Products<br>
> - Support MRCP<br>
> - Supports ASR as well (add'l fees)<br>
> - Excellent support<br>
> - Free trial<br>
> - Decent sounding voices at 8K and 16K<br>
> - Wide range of tuning parameters<br>
> Cons:<br>
> - Pricey<br>
> - Limited voice selection<br>
> - Limited support for 64-bit linux<br>
><br>
> AT&T (NaturalVoice) (no pricing info available)<br>
> Pros:<br>
> - Big company (solid in marketplace)<br>
> - Good suppport (user and developer)<br>
> - ASP model means no software to maintain<br>
> Cons:<br>
> - ASP model incurs delay<br>
> - Voices sound too digitized<br>
> - Limited support for 64-bit linux<br>
><br>
> Loquendo ($500/port for 1 voice + 15% addl voice)<br>
> Pros:<br>
> - Good sounding voices (almost as good as NeoSpeech)<br>
> - Wide variety of languages<br>
> - Excellent support<br>
> - Has free 30 day trial<br>
> - Supports MRCP<br>
> - Support ASR and Voice Recognition as well. (add'l fees)<br>
> - Small footprint (< 150MB)<br>
> Cons:<br>
> - Pricey<br>
> - Complicated install process<br>
> - Limited management/tuning capabilities<br>
><br>
> In the end, it was down to NeoSpeech or Loquendo for our application.<br>
> We are currently running tests with NeoSpeech and assuming all goes<br>
> well, we will select them. Though don't let that color your opinion<br>
> too much after several "focus groups" we discovered the most important<br>
> element in the equation is does your customer/boss like the sound of<br>
> the voices, and that is a completely subjective decision.<br>
><br>
><br>
> -pete<br>
><br>
> -------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: [Freeswitch-users] text to speech IVRs and MOH<br>
> From: Saeed Ahmad <<a href="mailto:saeedahmad1981@gmail.com">saeedahmad1981@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Date: Tue, May 19, 2009 12:40 am<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
><br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> Could you guys recommend me any online text to speech IVR software<br>
> which works OK with FS. i am using AT&T site and for some IVRs i<br>
> get sample rate errors. Also some resource to download more MOH<br>
> wav files.<br>
><br>
> Many thanks<br>
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