Aculab unveils text-to-speech software. (New Products).Aculab has unveiled the latest version of its text-to-speech (TTS (1) See text-to-speech. (2) (Transaction Tracking System) Software that monitors a transaction until completion. In the event of a hardware or software failure, it ensures that the database is brought back to its former state before the attempt to ) software, which now features five languages, including Latin American Spanish American Spanish n. The Spanish language as used in the Western Hemisphere. , as well as variants in voice styles. Providing a number of pre-configured versions for each voice, Aculab's new release of TTS allows developers to choose from up to 10 stylistic variants. These include a range of formal, semi-formal and casual options for both male and female voices. Voice styles can provide useful alternatives, not only to the degree of formality formality, in chemistry: see chemical equilibrium; concentration. but to attitudes or tones of voice, enabling different personalities to be portrayed. Aculab's "international" accent is also made widely available in this version of TTS. This has been carefully designed to give a clearer output, making it acceptable and intelligible to all English-speaking customers. New intonation intonation In phonetics, the melodic pattern of an utterance. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice (see tone), but in languages such as English, stress and rhythm are also involved. and duration modeling in Aculab TTS takes into account the structure of the words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. to be spoken and gives the appropriate emphasis, producing intelligible natural rhythmic speech. Aculab TTS incorporates a sophisticated model of pitch range and variation, which ensures that the intonation is clear and meaningful. It also adds the right amount of natural variation, avoiding monotonous and erratic extremes. www.aculab.com/850 763 9281 |
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