8 thoughts on - Text To Speech Engine

• Luminvox is one.. There are others out there.. Here’s an article by Ward Mundy that might help:http://nerdvittles.com/?p=7448

  From: jprangi@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:43 -0800
  To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine

  Hello,

  Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good.

  Regards,

  -Jai

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• Actually, scratch that.. Luminvox is not text to speech it’s speech recognition software. Got this mixed up and turned around 🙂 Anyhow, see the link I posted earlier, it’s got some good info to get you started.

  From: tjrlist@live.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:42:27 -0600
  Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine

  Luminvox is one.. There are others out there.. Here’s an article by Ward Mundy that might help:http://nerdvittles.com/?p=7448

  From: jprangi@gmail.com Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:16:43 -0800
  To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Text to Speech Engine

  Hello,

  Anyone know good quality text to speach engine for building IVRs for asterisk. Open-source will be nice, but I wont mind paying for thing really good.

  Regards,

  -Jai

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• Lumenvox is actually both… but hard to justify for TTS given all the freebies…

• We recently used Ivona for a fairly complex IVR project (multi-lingual, including pronunciation of foreign names).

  http://www.ivona.com

  Not free, but we found the sound quality considerably better than we were able to get from either Festival or Cepstral.

  Worth bearing in mind that we are based in the UK, so our primary concern was for good quality British English voices. I cannot comment on other variants such as Australian or American.

  Kind regards,

  Chris

• http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=i always find google translate works well

  http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=fr&q=je trouve toujours google translate fonctionne bien

• Thank you every one,

  Yes google’s translate is really good. http://zaf.github.io/asterisk-googletts/

  But I dont like the fact that have to go over the wire every time. Looking for some thing to install on local server.

  -Jai

• Take a look at http://www.ispeech.org/

  I implemented Speech-Recognition. The API is well documented and easy.

  Am 10.01.2014 21:16, schrieb Jai Rangi:

• Here is list of top multi language TTS engines

  1. Acapela

  2. Ivona

  3. Loguendo

  4. Cepstral.

  As per my information, they all work with open source Asterisk however please contact with their support for more information

  Regards

  *Tahir Almas*

  Managing Partner ICT Innovations http://www.ictinnovations.com Leveraging open source in ICT