[Cialug] Text to speech

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

Cepstral has pretty good quality text-to-speech.  Unfortunately, it's
not open source.  Fortunately, it isn't very expensive.

www.cepstral.com

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:54 -0500, Josh More wrote:
> Check out  http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
> 
> It works pretty well, but if you want natural-sounding speech, you need
> to use alternate voice files.
> 
> Festival is also available as rpms/debs for the more common distros.
> 
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> As an aside, does anyone here have familiarity with the reverse? 
> Speech to Text?  I'm looking for solutions that will run on Linux.  For
> this application, non-open source is acceptable, but not preferred.
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