Suggestions needed for Text To Speech application

[urmi.l]

Hello,

I want to use text to speech in asterisk-1.6.2.22. I have installed Festival and its working fine. But its having somewhat poor voice quality.

Is there any other tool or application which I can use ? Free or license ?

Please suggest me before I go for some license version.

-Thanks.

[ianplain]

Hi

Cepstral or Swift.

Cepstral is fully licenced Swift is open source but you have to licence the voice.

Personaly we use in Swift

Ian

[urmi.l]

Ian, Thank you very much for your quick response.

[urmi.l]

Is there any free application or not ?

[david55]

I think you are lucky that Festival is free. Free software tends to either: have a business model where it is a loss leader, or adjunct to hardware sales; or be decomposable into small units that can be developed by lots of people working more or less independently (including one, for small enough projects).

I think the only way you would get another free one would be as a fork of Festival.

[urmi.l]

David, Thank you very much for your reply.