[App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions

[Doug Crompton]

I wonder if anyone has explored other TTS systems?

Ivona also looks interesting....

http://www.ivona.com/en/telecom/asterisk/

http://www.ivona.com/en/news/results-of-text-to-speech-accuracy-study-2011/

https://secure.ivona.com/order/?lang=en
I sent them an email asking for prices on non-commercial Linux telephony products. Will see if they respond.

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


From: doug at crompton.com
To: kb2bsl at kc2ra.org
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:31:09 -0500
CC: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions




Thanks for the replies...here is my update on this after fooling with it this afternoon.

I checked my registration at Cepstral. They have a page where you can enter your registered email and they send you you any registrations they have for you.

http://www.cepstral.com/licenserecovery/Index?0

I suspect if you think you ever registered a product and you know the email you used to do it you should try that. I was surprised to find that I had two registrations keys for the the Diane voice. Not sure why that is but in any event I was able to use one of the keys to validate my Swift installation on Allstar. I was trying it with the version 5 code. 

I was not able to get it to validate the Diane_8khz voice but I was able to get it to validate the Diane voice which is 16khz.  The weather script then wrote the file but it did not play because it was 16khz. So I added lines in the script to call sox and convert to 8K sample rate. That worked fine.

Now my question is can I upgrade to version 6 and still get it to work with the same key? and is there any benefit (better audio) in upgrading?

It appears to write to a file fine. I know I never bought that option and when I did buy the Diane voice in 2006 it was about $20 or so as I remember.

So based on that it looks like you might be able to get away with just buying the voice if you can do just that anymore. They are now $40. Before laying out any money though I would wait and see what others say or maybe make a call to Cepstral.

I have used the same voice on my PBX so that was probably 16K. I will have to go back and look at that. Is the 8K limit an Asterisk limit or app_rpt?

73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio


From: kb2bsl at kc2ra.org
To: doug at crompton.com
Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:10:14 -0500

Doug,I know the page you're talking about, tried it myself and became discouraged by the possible $340 cost. We tried the festival route, and didn't like it.If you figure it out, I'd greatly appreciate if you share your findings, I'll do the same. GaryKB2BSL From: app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces at ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 2:58 PM
To: app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org
Subject: [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions I have a new allstar server that I would like to add Cepstral to. I have used Cepstral Diane voice that I purchased years ago on another PBX system. At the time I remember it being a very reasonable buy.

What are others experiences regarding Cepstral purchases. One third party page I went to said they offer an unlimted demo but the link was broken. When you go to there store it is $40 for voices, $100/ concurrency port, and $200 to write to file.  I do not remember all that before or prices that high for personal use.

If I want to write a wav file for a weather script do I need the write to file option? What are others buying or not buying here???

I want 8Khz Diane voice.
73 Doug
WA3DSP
http://www.crompton.com/hamradio 		 	   		  

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