Fwd: FreeSWITCH TTS Voice Prompt Generator
Hi all, I wanted to let you know that the TTS toolkit I was working on has now reached production state: https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts If you are just looking for ready to go voice prompt packages please take a look here: http://repo.profhost.eu/static/freeswitch/ Available language: English (en) German (de) Spanish (es) French (fr) Netherlandish (nl) Portuguese (pt) Russian (ru) Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) These are basically all languages FreeSWITCH currently supports :-) 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). @Michael Collins: I understand you took some major work in the existing voice prompts, especially in english. 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). 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. Cheers, Julian
Not bad, but Google translate is certainly not the best out there, by a long shot. 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. You sometimes need to use trickery to make certain words sound correct, and no TTS is perfect, but Ivona is winning by a mile! Cal On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to let you know that the TTS toolkit I was working on has now reached production state:
https://github.com/jpawlowski/freeswitch-sounds-tts
If you are just looking for ready to go voice prompt packages please take a look here: http://repo.profhost.eu/static/freeswitch/
Available language: English (en) German (de) Spanish (es) French (fr) Netherlandish (nl) Portuguese (pt) Russian (ru) Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
These are basically all languages FreeSWITCH currently supports :-)
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).
@Michael Collins: I understand you took some major work in the existing voice prompts, especially in english. 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).
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.
Cheers, Julian
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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@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
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.
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. 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). Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with Invona (also now that Amazon has acquired it). Cheers, Julian
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
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@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
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.
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.
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
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).
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.
Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with Invona (also now that Amazon has acquired it).
Nice, I didn't realise they got acquired
Cheers, Julian
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I think even they are confused about their pricing for non-real time use.
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me <mailto:julian@pawlowski.me>> wrote:
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@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk <mailto:cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk>> wrote:
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.
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.
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
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).
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.
Let's see and keep an eye on what happens with Invona (also now that Amazon has acquired it).
Nice, I didn't realise they got acquired
Cheers, Julian
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Great, thanks! Hopefully they can also answer to some licensing concerns as I'm not sure one would be allowed to re-distribute voice prompts created with Ivona TTS. If this can be clarified I would also add support for Ivona. 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).
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.
You are right, there is sometimes some choppyness. I didn't hear that much examples from Ivona because of my licensing concerns, could be that I missed that (or I'm simply not a professional within that area). However correct pronunciation seems to be an issue for both, especially when it comes to correct intonation. That still seems to be the biggest issue for all TTS engines... Looking forward to read about the feedback you get from Ivona support! Julian
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says: "III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. " That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible. I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages. Br, Julian
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output. Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it. You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day. You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly. Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words. You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach. Cal On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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Hi guys, I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions. A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file. Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts. Any thoughts? Cal On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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3000EUR? Meh. I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts. -Michael On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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It looks like there was some previous discussion/bounty on this as well; http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty#Record_Sound_Prompts_In_Other_Languag... The original estimate was $1200 for a single language, but I think we can get MUCH lower than that, maybe 100$ per language for the voice talent. I'll generate a list of the prompts, get some quotes from fiverr, and see what the cost would be. If there is enough interest in this, and we can get some donations towards the cost of the voice talent, then I would be happy to donate some of my own time to assist with editing, slicing, organizing etc. Cal On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
3000EUR? Meh.
I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts.
-Michael
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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Awesome! On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
It looks like there was some previous discussion/bounty on this as well;
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty#Record_Sound_Prompts_In_Other_Languag...
The original estimate was $1200 for a single language, but I think we can get MUCH lower than that, maybe 100$ per language for the voice talent.
I'll generate a list of the prompts, get some quotes from fiverr, and see what the cost would be.
If there is enough interest in this, and we can get some donations towards the cost of the voice talent, then I would be happy to donate some of my own time to assist with editing, slicing, organizing etc.
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
3000EUR? Meh.
I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts.
-Michael
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me>wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, I've just sent them an email asking to clarify.
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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Here are the quote's I have so far; French (Male, Native, French accent) - $125 German (Male, Fluent, German accent) - $500 Dutch (Male, Native, Dutch accent) - $190 English (Female, Native, American accent) - $85 English (Female, Native, British accent) - $120 Each one includes; * 3500 words * Full copyright/ownership/rights over the audio files * High quality, raw recordings with a professional mic * Translation from English script (where applicable) * Small sample provided before hand Therefore, I think the next steps would be to determine; * Which languages should be included, so we can determine what the cost would be * List of phrases/sentences that we want recorded (are we going to use phrase fragments to construct a sentence, or full paragraphs?) I've looked around for a list of typical phrases, but didn't have much luck. Any thoughts? Cal On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
Awesome!
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
It looks like there was some previous discussion/bounty on this as well;
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty#Record_Sound_Prompts_In_Other_Languag...
The original estimate was $1200 for a single language, but I think we can get MUCH lower than that, maybe 100$ per language for the voice talent.
I'll generate a list of the prompts, get some quotes from fiverr, and see what the cost would be.
If there is enough interest in this, and we can get some donations towards the cost of the voice talent, then I would be happy to donate some of my own time to assist with editing, slicing, organizing etc.
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
3000EUR? Meh.
I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts.
-Michael
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian@pawlowski.me
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, > I've just sent them an email asking to clarify. >
Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). It says:
"III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES ... 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to entrepreneurs. Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to use of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run by Service Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony System, in particular interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PBX, IP PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. ... IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE ... 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or other advertising material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees ordering Unpaid “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service Receiver to familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and suitability of “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service Receiver agrees to use Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for the above purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or other material benefit by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is prohibited to make Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any manner, as well as reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the Internet, radio, television or through any other media. "
That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not possible.
I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default voice prompt packages.
Br, Julian
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By "typical phrases" what do you mean? Stuff that each language would have, beyond what's in phrase_en.xml? -MC On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Here are the quote's I have so far;
French (Male, Native, French accent) - $125 German (Male, Fluent, German accent) - $500 Dutch (Male, Native, Dutch accent) - $190 English (Female, Native, American accent) - $85 English (Female, Native, British accent) - $120
Each one includes;
* 3500 words * Full copyright/ownership/rights over the audio files * High quality, raw recordings with a professional mic * Translation from English script (where applicable) * Small sample provided before hand
Therefore, I think the next steps would be to determine;
* Which languages should be included, so we can determine what the cost would be * List of phrases/sentences that we want recorded (are we going to use phrase fragments to construct a sentence, or full paragraphs?)
I've looked around for a list of typical phrases, but didn't have much luck.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
Awesome!
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
It looks like there was some previous discussion/bounty on this as well;
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty#Record_Sound_Prompts_In_Other_Languag...
The original estimate was $1200 for a single language, but I think we can get MUCH lower than that, maybe 100$ per language for the voice talent.
I'll generate a list of the prompts, get some quotes from fiverr, and see what the cost would be.
If there is enough interest in this, and we can get some donations towards the cost of the voice talent, then I would be happy to donate some of my own time to assist with editing, slicing, organizing etc.
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
3000EUR? Meh.
I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts.
-Michael
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output.
Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you generate them once and leave it.
You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily have a complete set within a day.
You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename them accordingly.
Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words.
You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach.
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski < julian@pawlowski.me> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media > Ltd] <cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > >> I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, >> I've just sent them an email asking to clarify. >> > > Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development > program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( > https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). > It says: > > "III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES > ... > 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to > entrepreneurs. Subject to the > provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled to > use of “IVONA > Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run > by Service > Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony > System, in particular > interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch > Exchange (PBX, IP > PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. > ... > IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE > ... > 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA > Speech Cloud” > Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or > other advertising > material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees > ordering Unpaid > “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. > 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech > generated as part of Free > “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. > 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of provision > of Free “IVONA > Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service > Receiver to > familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and > suitability of “IVONA Speech > Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service > Receiver agrees to use > Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service > for the above > purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of > Free “IVONA Speech > Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or > other material benefit > by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is > prohibited to make > Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any > manner, as well as > reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the > Internet, radio, television or > through any other media. > " > > That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every > user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's > own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not > possible. > > I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX > purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default > voice prompt packages. > > > Br, > Julian > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: > consulting@freeswitch.org > http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com > > FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server > http://www.cudatel.com > > Official FreeSWITCH Sites > http://www.freeswitch.org > http://wiki.freeswitch.org > http://www.cluecon.com > > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > >
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How the heck did I never see that file before lol, that's exactly what I needed, thanks! So I guess that's our word list, and the languages would be German, Spanish, French, Dutch and Russian. I'll convert that file into a transcript sheet for the voice talent, get some samples, a final quote based on exact word count, and then go from there. Cal On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
By "typical phrases" what do you mean? Stuff that each language would have, beyond what's in phrase_en.xml?
-MC
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Here are the quote's I have so far;
French (Male, Native, French accent) - $125 German (Male, Fluent, German accent) - $500 Dutch (Male, Native, Dutch accent) - $190 English (Female, Native, American accent) - $85 English (Female, Native, British accent) - $120
Each one includes;
* 3500 words * Full copyright/ownership/rights over the audio files * High quality, raw recordings with a professional mic * Translation from English script (where applicable) * Small sample provided before hand
Therefore, I think the next steps would be to determine;
* Which languages should be included, so we can determine what the cost would be * List of phrases/sentences that we want recorded (are we going to use phrase fragments to construct a sentence, or full paragraphs?)
I've looked around for a list of typical phrases, but didn't have much luck.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
Awesome!
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
It looks like there was some previous discussion/bounty on this as well;
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Bounty#Record_Sound_Prompts_In_Other_Languag...
The original estimate was $1200 for a single language, but I think we can get MUCH lower than that, maybe 100$ per language for the voice talent.
I'll generate a list of the prompts, get some quotes from fiverr, and see what the cost would be.
If there is enough interest in this, and we can get some donations towards the cost of the voice talent, then I would be happy to donate some of my own time to assist with editing, slicing, organizing etc.
Cal
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org>wrote:
3000EUR? Meh.
I think you're right that something like fiverr is good for getting a basic set of sound prompts recorded or for custom work. That would be especially useful if you find a talent who can continually do updated prompts.
-Michael
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
Hi guys,
I've just spoken with Ivona who have confirmed their pricing and licensing conditions.
A single developer would have to purchase a single license at 3000EUR (valid for 1 year) to generate the voice prompt files. This license gives us all the rights to any voice prompts that the Desktop TTS software generates, so once an audio file is created, we then hold all the rights on that file.
Now, 3000EUR is a lot of money, and it would be cheaper to get a bunch of people on fiverr.com to do real high quality voice prompts.
Any thoughts?
Cal
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:
> Yeah I asked them in the email to clarify what the license cost > would be for unlimited re-distribution of TTS output. > > Here's an idea, slightly off-topic from TTS, but well worth > considering, assuming these files will be static usage only, i.e. you > generate them once and leave it. > > You could probably hire two German voices from Fiverr.com to do > every one of those sentences/words for like 50 bucks... we get the majority > of our voice talent from that site, providing they have a decent quality > microphone, and you have some simple editing tools, then you could easily > have a complete set within a day. > > You'd basically provide the voice talent with a sheet to read from, > and specify what tone, inflection and speed you want them to use.. > repeating every word twice with a 1 second gap in between. Before you > split, you'd throw the big file into an editing package, such as Ableton, > and tinker around with normalization, dehiss, declick, mono, voice > enhancement etc, until you hit the sweet spot. You can then automate the > slicing using a simple Python script that splits the file on every 500ms of > silence. Assuming the voice talent didn't skip a word, you can then take > your word sheet, map this to your split files, and automatically rename > them accordingly. > > Using this approach saves you a lot of time/money avoiding > unnecessary studio work.. using a static sheet allows you to not only have > automation of the workflow, but also means the voice talent can give an > accurate cost (because they usually base their costs on a per word basis).. > i.e. 5 bucks for 200 words. > > You could probably have an entire voice set of words/sentences of > that size completed within a day, if you use this automation approach. > > Cal > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Julian Pawlowski < > julian@pawlowski.me> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media >> Ltd] <cal.leeming@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> I agree their pricing is confusing for non studio related usage, >>> I've just sent them an email asking to clarify. >>> >> >> Getting back to this, after registering for the Ivona development >> program I got access to their SaaS terms of use ( >> https://secure.ivona.com/static/pdf/saas_en.pdf). >> It says: >> >> "III. SCOPE AND TYPES OF “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICES >> ... >> 3. “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service is dedicated solely to >> entrepreneurs. Subject to the >> provisions of these Regulations, the Service Receiver is entitled >> to use of “IVONA >> Speech Cloud” Service for the purposes of the business activity run >> by Service >> Receiver, except for business activity in the areas of Telephony >> System, in particular >> interactive voice response (IVR) systems, Private Automatic Branch >> Exchange (PBX, IP >> PABX or other) or any other telecommunication solution. >> ... >> IV. FREE “IVONA Speech Cloud” SERVICE >> ... >> 3. The Text converted into the Speech generated under Free “IVONA >> Speech Cloud” >> Service, will be preceded by advertising material of Ivona and/or >> other advertising >> material in the form of sound, to what the Service Receiver agrees >> ordering Unpaid >> “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. >> 4. The Service Receiver shall not modify, in any way, Speech >> generated as part of Free >> “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service. >> 5. The Service Receiver acknowledges that the objective of >> provision of Free “IVONA >> Speech Cloud” Service by Ivona is primarily to enable the Service >> Receiver to >> familiarize with the functionality, characteristics, uses and >> suitability of “IVONA Speech >> Cloud” Service for the Service Receiver. Therefore, the Service >> Receiver agrees to use >> Speech made available to it under Free “IVONA Speech Cloud” Service >> for the above >> purposes only. It is prohibited to use Speech generated as part of >> Free “IVONA Speech >> Cloud” Service for commercial purposes, i.e. to achieve profits or >> other material benefit >> by the Service Receiver and/ or a third party. In particular, it is >> prohibited to make >> Speech available to any third parties against payment, in any >> manner, as well as >> reproduce, distribute, broadcast, publish Speech and on the >> Internet, radio, television or >> through any other media. >> " >> >> That makes it impossible to use Ivona for our purposes as every >> user/company would needs to have a valid subscription and to generate it's >> own voice prompt files. Redistribution of pre-compiled voice files is not >> possible. >> >> I fear as number III.3 makes it quite clear that usage for PBX >> purposes is critical Ivona is not an option to be used anymore for default >> voice prompt packages. >> >> >> Br, >> Julian >> >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________________ >> Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: >> consulting@freeswitch.org >> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com >> >> FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server >> http://www.cudatel.com >> >> Official FreeSWITCH Sites >> http://www.freeswitch.org >> http://wiki.freeswitch.org >> http://www.cluecon.com >> >> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list >> FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org >> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users >> UNSUBSCRIBE: >> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users >> http://www.freeswitch.org >> >> >
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Hello guys, I am trying to play an ivr menu but seem to be missing a point, i saw the demo ivr main menu example and now changed its name into salah_ivr but i get switch_ivr_play_say.c:142 Can't find macro salah_ivr_main_menu. where could the error be? It does not play any sound. I don't know what should i call the sound file, in case i don't use flite tts? <menu name="salah_ivr" <!-- greet-long="phrase:salah_ivr_main_menu" --> greet-long="say: welcome welcome" greet-short="phrase:salah_ivr_main_menu_short" invalid-sound="ivr/ivr-that_was_an_invalid_entry.wav" exit-sound="voicemail/vm-goodbye.wav" confirm-macro="" confirm-key="" tts-engine="flite" tts-voice="rms" confirm-attempts="3" timeout="10000" inter-digit-timeout="2000" max-failures="3" max-timeouts="3" digit-len="1"> <entry action="menu-exec-app" digits="1" param="transfer 1000 XML </menu> thanks in advance Sherif Omran
Hello guys, how do i tell the IVR menu, if no key is pressed, play this message? thank you regards, S.
Please see documentation here; http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Misc._Dialplan_Tools_ivr invalid-sound - played when no entry or an invalid entry is made. May be filename, say, or phrase. Hope this helps Cal On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Sherif Omran <sherifomran2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
Hello guys,
how do i tell the IVR menu, if no key is pressed, play this message?
thank you regards, S.
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That is because you are attempting to use a phrase that does not exist. See documentation here; http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Speech_Phrase_Management If you want to use TTS (i.e. you provide some text and it converts it to voice), then you can use the following; http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/TTS You can also record the voice menus yourself (or hire voice talent from fiverr.com), and play them as regular wav/mp3 - which gives a much better quality finish. Hope this helps Cal On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Sherif Omran <sherifomran2000@yahoo.com>wrote:
Hello guys,
I am trying to play an ivr menu but seem to be missing a point, i saw the demo ivr main menu example and now changed its name into salah_ivr but i get switch_ivr_play_say.c:142 Can't find macro salah_ivr_main_menu.
where could the error be? It does not play any sound. I don't know what should i call the sound file, in case i don't use flite tts?
<menu name="salah_ivr" <!-- greet-long="phrase:salah_ivr_main_menu" --> greet-long="say: welcome welcome" greet-short="phrase:salah_ivr_main_menu_short" invalid-sound="ivr/ivr-that_was_an_invalid_entry.wav" exit-sound="voicemail/vm-goodbye.wav" confirm-macro="" confirm-key="" tts-engine="flite" tts-voice="rms" confirm-attempts="3" timeout="10000" inter-digit-timeout="2000" max-failures="3" max-timeouts="3" digit-len="1"> <entry action="menu-exec-app" digits="1" param="transfer 1000 XML </menu>
thanks in advance Sherif Omran
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Alex Lake
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Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
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Julian Pawlowski
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Michael Collins
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Sherif Omran