Acapela GroupMerger of TTS companies Babeltech, Elan and Infovox. Many TTS-engines with online demonstrations. The Acapela Group develops TTS software for telephony circuit cards (Acapela High Quality and Acapela High Density) which it sells for use in IVR systems, for embedded applications (Pocket Babil), for telecom and multimedia applications (Babil Version 2.5 and Infovox) and for automotive, mobile terminal applications. Products Acapela High Quality and Acapela High Density Languages generated Acapela High Quality: Arabic, British English, American English, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish and Swedish. Acapela High Density: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and South American Spanish. Product Babil Version 2.5, Pocket Babil. Languages generated Dutch, French, Czech, British English, American English, German, Italian, European Portugese, Brazilian Portugese, Spanish, Turkish. Product Infovox 210, 230, 310, 330, Infovox Enterprise. Languages generated Dutch, French, Danish, British English, American English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish. Product Speech Cube (enterprise and telco telephony), Networks Cube (large scale telco services), Pocket Speech (PDA), Speech engine & Digalo (PC, multimedia applications, entertainment, talking characters, productivity software). Languages generated French, Arabic, Dutch, American English, British English, German, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Castillian Spanish and Latin American Spanish. The Acapela Group also develops speech recognition and voice authentication software.
http://www.acapela-group.com
Nuance CommunicationsNuance TTS engine Realspeak available in many languages. Company (former Scansoft) bought many TTS-manufacturers, e.g. Rhetorical, ETI-Eloquence, Nuance, Lernhout and Hauspie. Nuance develops TTS software for telecom, automotive, mobile and PC/multimedia applications, and IVR systems. Product Nuance Vocalizer. Languages generated American English, UK English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, European Spanish, Swedish. Products RealSpeak, SpeechSecure, rVoice. Languages generated American English, British English, Singaporean English, Australian English, Cantonese, Hong Kong Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Belgian Dutch, French, Canadian French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Brazilian Portugese, Russian, Spanish, American Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish. Nuance also develops speech recognition, voice authentication and VoiceXML software.
http://www.nuance.com/realspeak
AT&T Natural VoicesFeatures a line of speech synthesis products. AT&T develops TTS software for telephony applications. Product Natural Voices. Languages generated American English. AT&T's Natural Voices product is distributed exclusively by Wizzard Software.
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com
LoquendoLoquendo TTS manufacturer from Italy, support for many languages, online demonstration available. Loquendo develops TTS software for telephony applications. Product Loquendo TTS. Languages generated Italian, Catalan, American English, British English, French, German, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, Argentinian Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Chiliean Spanish, Mexican Spanish and Swedish. Loquendo also develops speech recognition and voice authentication software.
http://tts.loquendo.com
Cepstral LLCCepstral Speech Synthesis Text-to-speech for a wide selection of platforms - including servers, desktops and mobile. Provides a variety of languages, voices, and accents. Cepstral develops TTS software for server and desktop applications and mobile devices. Product Cepstral TTS. Languages generated American English, British English, Canadian French, Italian, German and American Spanish.
http://www.cepstral.com
IVO SoftwareFirma IVO Software powstala 2001 roku jako realizacja wspolpracy naukowej i biznesowej, ktorej celem bylo i jest opracowywanie i wprowadzanie na rynek produktow nowej technologii. Sukcesem IVO Software bylo opracowanie syntezatora mowy do urzadzen przenosnych Speaker Mobile, ktory zostal wykorzystany w telefonach komorkowych przeznaczonych dla osob niewidomych i niedowidzacych. Za wspomniane rozwiazanie firma otrzymala „Medal Gdynia bez Barier” w maju 2004 roku. Nabierajac doswiadczenia w dziedzinie syntezy mowy IVO Software opracowala syntezator mowy nowej generacji IVONA, ktorego jakosc glosu jest porownywalna z ludzka mowa.
http://www.ivona.com
Pentax/NeoSpeech, IncPentax/NeoSpeech develops TTS software for embeded devices, PCs and telephony applications. Product VoiceText. Languages generated American English, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin. Text-to-Speech (TTS) software, VoiceText™, that generates extremely high-quality, natural sounding human voices from text input. VoiceText is a flexible out-of-the-box solution available in configurations for a wide range of hand-held devices, desktop and network/server applications. It is currently available with a total of nine different voices that speak US English, Mexican Spanish, Korean, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.
http://www.neospeech.com
CybermovaUkrainian voices based on natural speech, contains a set of many thousands speech items, individual intonation and tempo support.
http://cybermova.com
SinoVoiceFounded in October 2000, Beijing InfoQuick SinoVoice Speech Technology Corp.(hereinafter referred to as SinoVoice) based on Chinese speech and handwriting recognition technology research and application, is a High-Tech enterprise developing all-around acoustic communication value-added services. SinoVoice is one of the first companies granted by Ministry of Information Industry with the license of nationwide telecommunication services in 2005.
http://www.sinovoice.com.cn
Svox AGSvox develops TTS software for telephony, multimedia and embedded systems. Product SVOX TTS. Languages generated Czech, Dutch, American English, British English, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Swedish.SVOX AG drives adoption of embedded speech solutions in automotive and mobile device industries. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, SVOX supports customers and partners in over 30 countries.
http://www.svox.com
E-SpeechE-Speech Corporation was founded in 1997 by a team of management and technical professionals. Formerly at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore, now Telcordia Technologies), the founding team has extensive background in the speech technologies: speech synthesis, recognition and verification, natural language processing, and applications, as well as in customer care and call center software and systems and computer-telephone integration (CTI). E-Speech is dedicated to providing text-to-speech synthesis of the highest quality and accuracy as well as other innovative speech technology. Product Text-to-Speech Synthesizer and Text-to-Phoneme Translator. Languages generated American English, Mandarin and South American Spanish.
http://www.espeech.com
LinguatecLinguatec is the leading provider of language-technology software for office use in Germany and the only company to have won the European Information Technology Prize three times. The activities of the language technology specialists concentrate on three language technology sections which can be presented as a language technology triangle: Automatic Translation, Voice Output and Speech Recognition.
http://www.linguatec.de
IBM IBM Text-to-Speech Research have developed a novel TTS system, Naxpres, built on IBM's successful work in data-driven methodologies for speech recognition. They system obtains its parameters through completely automated training on a few hours of speech data, which is acquired by recording a specially prepared script. During synthesis very small segments of recorded human speech are concatenated together to produce the synthesized speech. Product ViaVoice and WebSphere Voice Server. Languages generated Arabic, Dutch, American English, British English, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and North American Spanish. IBM also develops speech recognition and VoiceXML software.
http://www.research.ibm.com/tts
CotoviaCotovia is a bilingual text-to-speech system for Galician and Spanish languages developed by the Signal Processing Group at the University of Vigo (Spain) and a group of researchers of the University of Santiago de Compostela with the support of the Centro Ramon Pineiro para a Investigacion en Humanidades.
http://webs.uvigo.es/gtm_voz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:cotovia&catid=43&Itemid=138&lang=en
Bitlips OyBitlips develops TTS software. Product Diphone Languages generated Finnish and Finland Swedish. Finnish Speech Synthesis, offers small footprint as well as unit-selection engine. English language also available.
http://www.bitlips.fi
CSLUCSLU Speech Synthesis - Center for speech synthesis research, with demos and downloads available. Has a singing voice synthesis project.
http://www.cslu.ogi.edu/tts/main.html
e-rhetor - Develops applications and systems that support the Greek languageCurrent products include a series of high quality Text-to-Speech products for the telecommunications and multimedia market.
http://www.e-rhetor.com
The Festvox ProjectFree software tools and documentation for building new speech synthesis voices in English and other languages
Associated to Festival TTS. From Carnegie Mellon.
http://www.festvox.org
FonixFonix develops TTS software for IVR systems. Product FAAST TTS 5.2. Languages generated American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, European Spanish and Swedish. Fonix Corporation - Communications and technology company that provides integrated telecommunications services and value-added speech technologies. The combination of interactive speech technology and integrated telecommunications services provides for solutions to enhance and expand their communications needs.
http://www.fonix.com
FreeTTSFreeTTS - Java speech synthesis - A speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java(TM) programming language. Based upon Flite: a smallrun-time speech synthesis engine developed at Carnegie Mellon University and derived from the Festival Speech Synthesis System from the University of Edinburgh and the FestVox project from Carnegie Mellon University.
http://freetts.sourceforge.net
Bliss Intelligent TechnologiesBliss Intelligent Technologies develops TTS software also develops VoiceXML software. Product - Zubaan 1.0 TTS. Languages. Hindi Text To Speech System - Bliss Intelligent Technologies offers Hindi text to speech, Hindi OCR, Hindi speech recognition and IVR systems. Based Jaipur, India.
http://www.blissit.org
ILSP - Ekfonitis+ - Ekfonitis+, Greek Text to Speech Synthesis from the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece
http://www.ilsp.gr
IMS: German Research GroupSpeech synthesis group at the IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Online demo, speaking metro information system, various speech synthesis example sand some downloads. Research is concentrating on getting good prosidy (inflection).
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de