[Freeswitch-users] TTS Related (Freeswitch, Asterisk, Solaris)

[RR]

Hi Christopher,

been thinking about this for a little bit and was wondering if instead of
going on a chase around the net to find how to do this, would you be able to
share details of how you have your TTS / MRCP Cluster setup? Is this in the
Wiki somewhere or did you figure this out on your own? How well does this
perform? I'm assuming if I can manage to compile FS or Asterisk (depending
on which one I go with) on Solaris 10, then I could not worry about TTS
compiling on Solaris as I can just build my MRCP cluster like yours on
Linux/Windows etc and just do what you're doing?

Any help would be HIGHLY HIGHLY appreciated.

Thank you in advance
RR

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Christopher Rienzo <cmrienzo at gmail.com>wrote:

> I can't answer about FreeSWITCH on solaris, but I can talk about TTS.  In
> my setup, I have a cluster of MRCP servers.  The FreeSWITCH boxes then use
> mod_unimrcp to make TTS requests to that cluster.  This has the following
> benefits:
>
> 1. TTS licenses can be shared among any FreeSWITCH box.   This is good
> because licenses are expensive.
> 2. There are more TTS vendors that support MRCP than there are TTS modules
> in FreeSWITCH- though a new module could be written if you are a C
> developer.
>
> Others use mod_cepstral and mod_tts_commandline, so those options can be
> explored too.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:32 AM, RR <ranjtech at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have a whole bunch of questions regarding the TTS functionality in
>> FreeSWITCH and Just Generally about Freeswitch on a Sparc based Solaris
>> Platform and then the combo of the two, whether FreeSWITCH can be built on a
>> Sparc based Solaris platform when compiled with a "reasonably" good TTS
>> module be it Cepstral, FLite OR NeoSpeech etc?
>>
>> 1) Can anyone reflect on any experience they might have had in terms of
>> the performance difference between TTS on Asterisk (let's say Asterisk 1.8)
>> and FreeSWITCH? Is one better than the other?
>> 2) Can One or the other or both be compiled successfully on a Sparc based
>> Solaris platform?
>> 3) Would it benefit if I was to use a dedicated box for TTS and throw
>> calls to that box for TTS processing and send back media the way it came
>> after the sound files are generated from the TTS-process?
>> 4) Please note that the quality of the Translation doesn't need to be
>> impeccable or mimic human speech. It just needs to be understandable enough
>> esp. over mobile phones. The more complex part about it is, that the user
>> directory can/will have names from all sorts of ethnicities/nationalities
>> which may mess up a lot of these TTS engines. So what is the best approach
>> there in this mixed environment
>> 5) Does the OpenMRCP play any part in any of this? Would I benefit with
>> that?
>>
>> I think this is the crux of my concerns. Any ideas and/or suggestions to
>> kick off the discussion would be very very much appreciated.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> RR
>>
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