Speech synthesis
Creation, evaluation, and integration of concatenative and rule-based engines, custom voices, prosody, phoneme sets, and text normalization.
Speech synthesis, recognition, and voice interfaces
Talknowledgy
Talknowledgy delivers speech technology products, services, and consulting expertise for multilingual systems, mobile devices, telephone services, voice messaging, and spoken access to dynamic applications.
Practical speech technology expertise
The work spans speech synthesis, speech recognition, voice user interface design, localization, product evaluation, phonetic research, and business development liaison for computer-telephony partners.
Voice interfaces
Dialogue and interface design for spoken information delivery, CTI applications, voice messaging, and spoken access to digital services.
Localization
Language and internationalization support across English varieties, Spanish varieties, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, and more.
Led by Dr. Caroline Henton
Dr. Henton received her M.Phil. in General Linguistics and Doctorate in Acoustic Phonetics from the University of Oxford before working across academia and speech technology product teams in the UK and California.
Her work includes high-quality synthetic speech on Apple platforms, linguistic development for DECtalk, multilingual text-to-speech research, voice interface design, and consulting for technology companies, publishers, and research groups.