Text to Speech for IVR recordings
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So most people I know are typically not excited to be the voice used to record messages on IVRs for a phone system. I had setup a freepbx system for my wife's company and she had purchased voice recordings from 8x8. I am not sure if anyone has ever purchased these but they are actually really nice recordings that do not sound overly robotic. Just curious if anyone knows of a software or website that you can type out your message and have it give you a clean sounding wav file or similar? I've looked at a few online but they all sound too robotic to me. I wish I knew what the 8x8 one was. Anyways just wondering if you guys use anything like this on your systems or have any suggestions.
Thanks
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Why are you looking for a robot? Just have a human record it.
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Need voice over work? I can be hired at a very reasonable rate. And yes, I have recorded (and edited) the voice prompts for an IVR system before. Ok, I didn't do the parts in German, but we had a lady in the office who could speak German.
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@scottalanmiller said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
Why are you looking for a robot? Just have a human record it.
In some instances employees leave a company. Then you end up with different voices on the recordings.
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I usually have someone do the recordings at the client's office. I was just impressed with the quality of the recordings that 8x8 provided. I like the idea that modifying the recordings will always keep everything consistent. The recordings were not robotic at all.
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@syko24 said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
@scottalanmiller said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
Why are you looking for a robot? Just have a human record it.
In some instances employees leave a company. Then you end up with different voices on the recordings.
So make new ones. How many do you have?
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https://www.naturalreaders.com/software.html This sounds pretty good to me. I'd be content putting it on my IVR.
Also, maybe check this out http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
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@scottalanmiller said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
@syko24 said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
@scottalanmiller said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
Why are you looking for a robot? Just have a human record it.
In some instances employees leave a company. Then you end up with different voices on the recordings.
So make new ones. How many do you have?
I guess the idea was that this seemed quick and easy to produce. The recordings are always consistent from one to the next. I am trying to see if i can post a sample on here.
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Here is one of the recordings. I don't know, maybe I'm mistaken and this is a person???
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I pay someone to record them. Typically a service like amazingvoice.com
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I've used Amazon Polly https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ before. It's the easiest lifelike voices that can be directly downloaded without a hassle.
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@smitherick said in Text to Speech for IVR recordings:
I've used Amazon Polly https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ before. It's the easiest lifelike voices that can be directly downloaded without a hassle.
I actually came across that as well. Looks pretty interesting. Not sure i understand the billing for that though. If you use it they charge per character during that month or $4/ 1 million characters. But if you don't use it do you still pay the $4/month?
The voices it generates are pretty good though. Thanks for the suggestion!
