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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I think even they are confused about
their pricing for non-real time use.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julian
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<div class="gmail_extra">thanks for having a look to the
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity
Media Ltd] <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related
usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with
Invona (also now that Amazon has acquired it).</div>
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<div>Nice, I didn't realise they got acquired</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Julian</div>
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