Calling All Humans to Take the Speechify Challenge! Is it Real Helen or Is It Speechify Helen?Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2002 Visit www.speechifychallenge.com and Hear for Yourself Just How Real 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 Can Sound Think you've heard it all about automated voices that sound just like a real person? We don't think you have...yet. Starting today, SpeechWorks International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPWX SPWX Speechworks (stock symbol) ), the global leader in speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies and services, invites you to take the Speechify speech·i·fy intr.v. speech·i·fied, speech·i·fy·ing, speech·i·fies To give a speech: "In Washington, cabinet secretaries pose and speechify" Jonathan Alter. Challenge to hear for yourself TTS so real it actually sounds like a natural voice. Visit www.speechifychallenge.com and cast your vote for the "Real Helen" or "Speechify Helen." Take a listen on the website and you will be entered into a drawing to receive American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. gift certificates, one worth $1,000! During a recent test, even industry analysts had difficulty distinguishing between Real Helen and Speechify Helen. "The Speechify Challenge represents an industry first, " said Rachel L. MacAulay, senior analyst of Voice & Wireless Commerce at The Kelsey Group. "It sets a precedent for the text-to-speech market by running a comparison against real speech. This is a bold move on SpeechWorks' part." The Speechify Challenge is based on the Speechify 2.1 TTS engine from SpeechWorks, software that takes written text and expresses it as spoken language. (See today's related release: SpeechWorks Launches Speechify 2.1.) Visit www.speechifychallenge.com and good luck! Don't Miss Global Speech Day - May 21-22, 2002 Join SpeechWorks for its second annual Global Speech Day, a live and free 2-day Web event May 21-22, 2002. Global Speech Day features top business and technical minds leading the way in the deployment of and vision for speech solutions and services. This year's international event includes presentations and interactive panels from leading companies and analyst firms such as ABN AMRO ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) , America Online See AOL. , Datamonitor, Intel, InterVoice-Brite, Kelsey Group, Merlin Telecom, Microsoft, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Wildfire, Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. and many others, along with online chat, breaking news, and live audience polls. If you are interested in the speech industry and where it is headed, you won't want to miss Global Speech Day 2002. For more information and registration, visit http://prg.globalspeechday.com. About SpeechWorks International, Inc. Through the power of SpeechWorks technologies, the human voice is all a person needs to access instant information and conduct transactions from a phone or device. Around the world, customer service innovators such as America Online, CIBC CIBC Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce CIBC Centres Interinstitutionnels de Bilan de Compétences CIBC Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control (Trinidad) CIBC Commercial International Brokerage Company Bank, Microsoft, OnStar and United Airlines are realizing returns on SpeechWorks applications that consistently delight and serve customers 24 hours a day. With over 160 partners, SpeechWorks (Nasdaq: SPWX) delivers natural language speech recognition, speaker verification and text-to-speech (TTS) solutions to leading corporations, telecommunications providers, device manufacturers and government organizations worldwide. For a description of our products, services and unique customer programs such as SpeechWorks Here(TM) S.T.E.P. (Speech Technology Evaluation Process) call 617.428.4444 or visit www.speechworks.com. SpeechWorks, Speechify and SpeechWorks Here are trademarks or registered trademarks of SpeechWorks International, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion