Talknowledgy

Speech technology reference · Chapters 1-7

Talknowledgy Speech technology reference

Chapters 1-7 · speech synthesis, recognition and voice interfaces

Scope

Talknowledgy delivers speech technology products, services, and consulting expertise for multilingual systems, mobile devices, telephone services, voice messaging, and spoken access to dynamic applications.

Consulting and evaluation match customer needs to high-quality speech applications, from multilingual text-to-speech to natural spoken dialogue.

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Read the chapters in order, or jump to the one that answers the question in hand.

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    Practice overview

    Who the practice is and what fields the work draws on.

    4 focus areas
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    Services

    What the practice performs, as service definitions and capability lines.

    9 capabilities
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    Products

    Which speech products and voice systems the work is attached to.

    3 products
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    Client engagements

    Which organisations the consulting work was carried out for, and its scope.

    16 engagements
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    Publications

    The numbered bibliography, reviews and abstracts, and presentations.

    64 entries
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    Appearances

    Which conferences and meetings the practice appeared at.

    7 meetings
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    Samples

    What demonstration material existed and whether it resolves here.

    availability note

Services reference

Service definitions
ServiceDefinition
Dialogue and interface designSpoken and voice user dialogue design for natural information delivery and retrieval.
Speech synthesis creationEngine creation and integration for English varieties, Spanish varieties, French, Italian, German, Swedish, and Japanese.
Engine evaluationSuitability analysis and naturalness testing for concatenative and parametric speech synthesis engines.
Custom voices and agentsCustomized synthetic voices and speaking animated agents shaped to customer preferences and needs.

Product specifications

Product specifications
ProductSpecification
Apple MacInTalk Pro 2High quality synthetic voices released in 1993, including Victoria, Bruce, and Agnes. Victoria's voice was used for Macintosh alert messages.
DECtalk software voicesUS English male, female, and child software voices from 1995-1997, plus a British English version of DECtalk.
Fonix FAAST 4.0Fonix female synthetic voice work, including beta availability noted for July 2000.

Note

The product table carries the release wording published for each product. Fonix FAAST 4.0 is listed at beta availability for July 2000.

Language coverage

Synthesis language coverage
LanguageRecorded work
English varietiesMacInTalk Pro 2 voices, DECtalk US English male, female and child voices, and a British English version of DECtalk.
Spanish varietiesSpanish components for DECtalk text-to-speech, and Latin American Spanish phonetic documentation.
GermanGerman components for DECtalk text-to-speech.
FrenchSynthesis engine creation and integration.
ItalianSynthesis engine creation and integration.
SwedishSynthesis engine creation and integration.
JapaneseSynthesis engine creation and integration.