The Swedish provider of voice solutions, PipeBeach, announced that the Zürich-based Svox text-to-speech (TTS) engine has been integrated into its speechWeb VoiceXML platform. This alliance aims at providing mixed-lingual synthesised voices and improving widely used voice applications, such as email/SMS reading, directory assistance and news briefs. The combined offering is available for operators, service providers and enterprises for instant deployment.
We provide our customers with cost-efficient implementation of voice solutions in a wide range of languages. Svoxs innovative technology and exciting roadmap is an excellent fit with PipeBeach applications and speechWeb platform. We foresee the creation of a range of new revenue generating and cost saving services enabled by our combined offering, says Christer Granberg, CEO and co-founder of PipeBeach.
Alexander Fries, chief marketing officer at Svox commented: PipeBeachs speechWeb VoiceXML platform unique features in combination with Svox s mixed-lingual and natural sounding text-to-speech is a perfect solution for telecommunication companies and global corporations interested in implementing voice solutions.
When using telephony voice services, including a text-to-speech voice, end-users often have difficulties understanding the synthesized voice when text includes words in another language than the text-to-speech engine was developed for. For example an email in French containing English words would be pronounced incorrectly by a standard French TTS engine.
The mixed-lingual text-to-speech architecture from Svox solves the pronunciation problem when reading a native language including foreign words, using the same voice in one single sentence.
2003-02-04
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