ScanSoft Expands Leading Portfolio of Text-to-Speech Software for Embedded Applications with RealSpeak Solo 4.0.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Latest Offering Leverages Merged Company Assets to Deliver the Most Versatile, High-Quality Text-to-Speech Solution for a Wide Range of Devices, Automobiles and Desktop Applications ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSFT SSFT Secure Socket File Transfer ), the global leader of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the availability of RealSpeak(TM) Solo 4.0, the latest offering in its industry-leading portfolio of text-to-speech solutions optimized for embedded and desktop applications. RealSpeak Solo 4.0 is the first text-to-speech product released post-merger from the SpeechWorks Division of ScanSoft and draws on some of the most popular high-quality voices from the company's broad network speech offerings, providing a highly scalable, complete embedded 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 solution. The SpeechWorks Division offers the industry's preeminent TTS solutions for converting text to human-sounding synthesized speech, and RealSpeak Solo is the most global and pervasive embedded TTS solution available, with an unprecedented portfolio of more than 20 languages scheduled for world wide release in a variety of female and male voices. Multi-language capabilities make it easy for developers to deploy globally, while unlimited vocabularies and customized dictionaries provide the most accurate pronunciation and intelligibility possible. SpeechWorks Division of ScanSoft's TTS has proven to be a highly accurate solution within a wide range of leading customers including Peiker, Auralog, Ford Motor Company, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers and Volkswagen. "Our TTS solutions continue to grow in popularity as the most advanced and natural-sounding TTS solutions available for embedded applications, and we are proud of our continued evolution and development efforts with RealSpeak Solo 4.0," said Steve Chambers, president of SpeechWorks, a division of ScanSoft. "With unmatched global capabilities, and the most accurate, scalable solution available, RealSpeak 4.0 adds to our breadth of embedded speech offerings, and makes us the only vendor with the expertise, technology and language coverage to provide superior speech solutions to our customers around the world." RealSpeak and RealSpeak Solo Features and Applications With memory sizes of 8-16MB for embedded and 30MB and 60MB for desktop, RealSpeak Solo 4.0 delivers premium voice quality and natural-sounding synthesized speech and can be incorporated into a wide range of applications, including: --An array of consumer devices such as handsets, talking dictionaries, gaming consoles and desktop solutions. --Automotive applications including hands-free dialing, navigation systems and command and control. Optimized for embedded navigation applications, RealSpeak Solo provides accurate pronunciation of navigation related text commonly used in automotive solutions and navigation devices. --Assistive devices and technologies including talking automated teller machines automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. , language learning solutions, screen readers and other assistive technology Hardware and software that help people who are physically impaired. Often called "accessibility options" when referring to enhancements for using the computer, the entire field of assistive technology is quite vast and even includes ramp and doorway construction in buildings to support devices. RealSpeak Solo 4.0 Features --Based on RealSpeak, the most widely used TTS engine available, RealSpeak Solo shares the front end interface, allowing for intelligent and contextual handling of ambiguous text input such as abbreviations and numbers --Highly scalable and customizable, the RealSpeak Solo SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). is available for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. (Win98, WinME, WinNT, W2K See Windows 2000. W2K - Windows 2000 and XP) and Microsoft WinCE Version 3.0 and higher, and includes 11, 16 and 22kHz versions, enabling developers to choose a maximum quality for their hardware configuration --RealSpeak Solo is SAPI (Speech API) A programming interface from Microsoft for speech recognition and synthesis. It provides a way for developers to enable their applications to receive text from and send text to voice devices. 1. 5.0 compliant, and comes with an easy-to-use proprietary ScanSoft(R) API with support for 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. (R) Solo API for an easy transition for existing Speechify customers --RealSpeak Solo 4.0 brings the best of the former Speechify and RealSpeak voice portfolios under one umbrella, and ensures investment protection by providing backwards compatibility backwards compatibility - backward compatibility and a seamless upgrade path for customers. TTS Product Portfolio The SpeechWorks Division offers a full suite of market-leading TTS solutions for embedded and network-based TTS applications that, depending on the technology, support open, industry standards such as SSML SSML Speech Synthesis Markup Language , MRCP MRCP Member of Royal College of Physicians. MRCP abbr. Member of the Royal College of Physicians and SAPI for empowering VoiceXML- and SALT-based applications among others. The company's network-based TTS solutions provide customers with the most comprehensive and flexible solutions available today. Its embedded TTS solutions are ideal in mobile, automotive, game and PC/multi-media environments that require memory footprints ranging from 100KB to 16MB, and 30 and 60MB versions. Customers can also take advantage of SpeechWorks' Virtuoso(TM) Custom Voice Program to create a custom voice for their embedded or network-based TTS application, which can also be specifically tuned for a dedicated application domain, such as navigation. For more information and to sample SpeechWorks' full portfolio of TTS voices, visit http://www.scansoft.com/products/. About the SpeechWorks Division of ScanSoft Speech applications for the real world. Through a global partner network, the company delivers field-proven solutions that use the human voice to interact with information systems and devices. Today, thousands of companies and millions of users around the world depend on SpeechWorks(R) solutions from ScanSoft to deliver vital business information and simplify every day life. About ScanSoft, Inc. ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq:SSFT) is the global leader of speech and imaging solutions that are used to automate a wide range of manual processes - saving time, increasing worker productivity and improving customer service. For more information regarding ScanSoft products and technologies, please visit www.ScanSoft.com. |
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