<div>Not bad, but Google translate is certainly not the best out there, by a long shot.</div><div><br></div><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>
<div><br></div><div>You sometimes need to use trickery to make certain words sound correct, and no TTS is perfect, but Ivona is winning by a mile!</div><div><br></div><div>Cal</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Julian Pawlowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:julian@pawlowski.me" target="_blank">julian@pawlowski.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I wanted to let you know that the TTS toolkit I was working on has now reached production state:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts" target="_blank">https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If you are just looking for ready to go voice prompt packages please take a look here: <a href="http://repo.profhost.eu/static/freeswitch/" target="_blank">http://repo.profhost.eu/static/freeswitch/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Available language:</div><div><div>English (en)</div><div>German (de)</div><div>Spanish (es)</div><div>French (fr)</div><div>Netherlandish (nl)</div><div>Portuguese (pt)</div><div>Russian (ru)</div>
<div>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)</div><div><br></div><div>These are basically all languages FreeSWITCH currently supports :-)</div></div><div><br></div><div>There is also quite a long readme in the Github repo if you are interested in more details or contribution (e.g. improving your language translation files).</div>
<div><br></div><div>@Michael Collins:</div><div>I understand you took some major work in the existing voice prompts, especially in english.</div><div>I'd appreciate if you could take an extended look to the readme file, especially "Differences and improvements" as there are some assumptions I would like to be confirmed (e.g. about those tone files).</div>
<div><br></div><div>We could also talk about how this can be helpful for FreeSWITCH as a whole. But I'm not sure if this is the right place to discuss, just let me know and drop me a private line if you want.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Julian</div></div>
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