Aculab releases latest text-to-speech software. (New Products).

Aculab, a provider of enabling technology for the communications market, will unveil the latest version of its host-based text-to-speech (TTS) software. Now supporting the W3C standard speech synthesis mark-up language (SSML) as well as offering new languages, new voices and a talking lexicon tool, Aculab TTS V3.O can enable developers to gain entry into new market sectors and create new revenue streams. Designed for telephony applications that require spoken output and where the information to be read out is either frequendy updated or too extensive to record, Aculab TTS can help improve accuracy and pronunciation and features frill release versions of Brazilian Portuguese and Italian as well as new British English male and Spanish female voices. Aculab TTS can also bring benefits such as non-declarative intonation, allowing interrogative statements to be produced. Aculab's support of SSML also allows systems inregrarors and developers to change voice or language within the text, as well as control pitch, sp eech rate, intonation and emphasis. Version 3.0 also automatically provides the prosodic phrases for each sentence, whatever the language, creating intonation contours and assigning an appropriate duration to each sound. Fully scalable, Aculab TTS uses client/server architecture and works in conjunction with Aculab's Prosody digital signal processor (DSP) resource cards, which are used for audio replay and other simultaneous DSP resource functions such as echo cancellation.

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