Text to speech (TTS) voices.
Posted:
Sun Jul 22, 2012 3:05 amby punjab
Hello there.
We are using Cepstral voices as TTS, working ok.
Can you tell me, which voice is compatible with goautodial/vicidial except cepstral. We are not satisfy with cepstral voice feature.
I need a natural type voice with goautodial .
Please help me .
Re: Text to speech (TTS) voices.
Posted:
Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:11 pmby williamconley
1) GoAutoDial is not an application, it's an installer. The "application" that the "voice" would be working with is Asterisk (and arguably Vicidial, which controls Asterisk).
2) Cepstral voices have improved, but in so doing they have upgraded their system requirements to Asterisk 1.6 or above. Vicidial works only with Asterisk 1.4 or 1.2. Since "GoAutoDial" is just the installer for Vicidial, you are now presented with a problem. The better voices work only in a more recent version of Asterisk than Vicidial works with.
3) Our solution to this is to set up an Asterisk 1.6 or 1.8 server to "serve" TTS to Vicidial externally. This is a bit of a complex setup, involving PIAF Purple and a mysql table to pass the text one way and the DTMF reponse back, and is installed in several locations and working fairly well. So far the only bumps are that the Asterisk will segfault every couple of months and need to be restarted (resolved if you can restart that server nightly, of course).
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