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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" face="Tahoma">I wonder if anyone has explored other TTS systems?<br><br>Ivona also looks interesting....<br><br><a href="http://www.ivona.com/en/telecom/asterisk/" target="_blank">http://www.ivona.com/en/telecom/asterisk/</a><br><br><a href="http://www.ivona.com/en/news/results-of-text-to-speech-accuracy-study-2011/" target="_blank">http://www.ivona.com/en/news/results-of-text-to-speech-accuracy-study-2011/</a><br><br><a href="https://secure.ivona.com/order/?lang=en" target="_blank">https://secure.ivona.com/order/?lang=en</a><br><br id="FontBreak"></font>I sent them an email asking for prices on non-commercial Linux telephony products. Will see if they respond.<br><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: doug@crompton.com<br>To: kb2bsl@kc2ra.org<br>Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:31:09 -0500<br>CC: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br>Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions<br><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Thanks for the replies...here is my update on this after fooling with it this afternoon.<br><br>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.<br><br><a href="http://www.cepstral.com/licenserecovery/Index?0" target="_blank">http://www.cepstral.com/licenserecovery/Index?0</a><br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: kb2bsl@kc2ra.org<br>To: doug@crompton.com<br>Subject: RE: [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions<br>Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:10:14 -0500<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Doug,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I know the page you're talking about, tried it myself and became discouraged by the possible $340 cost. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">We tried the festival route, and didn't like it.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">If you figure it out, I'd greatly appreciate if you share your findings, I'll do the same.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Gary</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">KB2BSL</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";"> app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Doug Crompton<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 23, 2013 2:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [App_rpt-users] Cepstral questions</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";">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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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???<br><br>I want 8Khz Diane voice.<br id="ecxFontBreak"></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";">73 Doug<br>WA3DSP<br><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";"></span></p></div></div></div> </div>
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