DiamondWare and Screaming Bee Change Voices.MESA, Ariz. -- DiamondWare announced today that its high-definition 3D positional voice technology now includes Screaming Bee's voice changing engine. This technology, found in Screaming Bee's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. MorphVOX, lets people change their voice to make them sound younger or older, or the opposite gender, or a fantasy creature like a demon lord. DiamondWare can now offer its customers the many voices found in MorphVOX using the same clean XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. interface. Voice morphing Transforming one image into another; for example, a car into a tiger. The term comes from metamorphosis. Morphing programs work by marking prominent points, such as tips and corners, of the before and after images. is important to a variety of people for different reasons. In fantasy and science fiction games, it helps people sound like their often non-human character. For young people and many females, they want to be more anonymous or attract less attention. And for many adult role-players, there is an attraction to playing a character of the opposite gender. The technology by Screaming Bee lets people do all of these things. "We are excited to partner with Screaming Bee, the leader in voice changing technology. They are well known to gamers, who have long been able to download their product to tailor the sound of the voice to fit their avatars," said Keith Weiner, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DiamondWare. He added, "Quality matters in voice change, because if it sounds artificial or processed, it is a clear giveaway to other users." "We are very happy to work with DiamondWare," said Mark Ramirez, CEO of Screaming Bee. He added, "DiamondWare's flexible architecture positions them as the clear leader. It was easy for them to integrate our leading-edge voice morphing technology." About DiamondWare DiamondWare provides best-of-breed real time voice technology with ground-breaking 3D positioning and high-definition quality. Applications include games, simulators, conferencing, VoIP, and radio over IP. Customers include DARPA DARPA: see Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) The name given to the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency during the 1980s. It was later renamed back to ARPA. , the US Special Forces, Navy, Air Force, as well as game developers, carriers, and equipment manufacturers. DiamondWare has received acclaim and recognition from numerous organizations, including TMC TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (Norwalk, Connecticut) TMC Texas Medical Center (Houston, TX) TMC Traffic Message Channel TMC The Movie Channel TMC Traffic Management Center Labs Innovation Award, Best of Show at Internet Telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. , Product of the Year from Communications Convergence magazine, and has been on the Pulver 100 list since 2004. The company holds many patents. Founded in 1994, DiamondWare is headquartered in Mesa, Arizona Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona and part of the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Area. It is the third-largest city in Arizona, after Phoenix and Tucson. Mesa is one of the United States' fastest-growing cities, and currently ranks as the 38th-largest. . More information is available at http://www.dw.com. About Screaming Bee Screaming Bee is a leading provider of voice software and solutions for online games, VoIP and multimedia applications. Screaming Bee's high-quality voice morphing technology is used in online games. Gamers can now have voices to match their in-game characters. The flagship product, MorphVOX Pro, allows studios to save time and potentially thousands of dollars by creating multiple voices from existing stock audio or a single voice talent. MorphVOX Pro is used by professionals in a number of fields, including education, radio broadcasting The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , and animation. For more information, please visit http://www.screamingbee.com. |
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