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@kc2ra.org
To: doug@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.

Gary

KB2BSL

From: app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org [mailto:app_rpt-users-bounces@ohnosec.org] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 2:58 PM
To: app_rpt-users@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