[Sussex] Text to mp3/ogg converter

[Neil Hart]

On 31/08/07, John Crowhurst <info at johnscomputersupport.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, August 31, 2007 14:49, Neil Hart wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > I'm quite happy playing on the command line at the moment, but will
> > look at the various front-ends later.
> >
> > I've tried "festival" - and it was sort of OK.
>
> How much close to robot does festival sound?
>
> I installed Cepstral on Asterisk once, just never got to play with it
> much. They have a range of different voices.
>
> You can demo the voices on their website:
> http://www.cepstral.com/demos/
>
> --
> John Crowhurst
> John's Computer Support
>

Thanks for that John.

Cepstral does seem better than 'festival' and 'espeak' (IMO)... so
might be something I have to consider.

Cheers.

Neil