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Cereproc Recognised for its Multilingual Speech Synthesis Portfolio

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Congratulations to Cereproc, the Edinburgh-based text to speech (TTS) supplier, who won a META Seal of Recognition last week at the META Forum in Berlin for their text to speech software products, judged as actively contributing to the European Multilingual Information Society. Previous winners in the same technology space include Phonexia (Czech Republic), PerVoice (Italy), and Vocapia (France) for their Voxsigma suite.

The name Cereproc might be coined from the somewhat abstract expression “cerebral processing”, but the company’s feet seem to be firmly on the ground when it comes to developing innovative voice technology suited to a polyglot world. Their scalable and natural text to speech voices are both characterful and easy to integrate and apply, and they support a growing range of languages - English, Spanish, Catalan, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Romanian, Mandarin and Japanese – plus a variety of local accents for certain of these languages such as American English, British English, Northern English, Scottish English, Irish English, West Midlands - Black Country English, and Southern English.

The company’s current research efforts include developing voices that express specific “emotional” tones. These can range from angry to despairing voices and from delighted to merely content tonalities along with many finer shades of feeling. Applications will range from spoken eBooks and marketing content to gaming apps, robots and virtual assistants, many of which will be mediated through mobile platforms where voice is the prime content channel. All these voices are made available through the CereVoice Cloud, a text-to-speech web service offering developers easy access to the CereVoice 3 TTS engine, so that any application can be speech enabled with TTS output.

Text to speech has become a highly competitive business. AVIOS, a major speech industry get-together  announced recently that speech tech had reached a “tipping point” in commercial applications. Amazon snapped up TTS firm Ivona in January this year, presumably to give an automatic voice to its customer experience facilities or possibly to its Kindle books.  And both Facebook and Apple have been involved in speech acquisitions or announced projects, especially linking TTS to translation apps.

Despite the competition, this spells multiple opportunities for TTS. We expect to see Cereproc helping others to do a lot more talking the talk in the years ahead.


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