Appendix A / Index

APPENDIX B: Summary of Speech Synthesis Products

Product | Manufacturer or Developer | Platforms | Languages | Voices | Controls / Support | Requirements | Method
Infovox 230 (v1.0) | Telia Promotor Infovox AB TTS Sales Division PO Box 2069, S-17102 Solna Sweden Kuulolaitekeskus Oy
PL8, 02101 Espoo

Tel. +358 9 429 3276

http://www.infovox.se

RS232 Desktop

PC ISA board

OEM board

Windows 95/NT

Apple Macintosh

Finnish
English
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Italian
Spanish
French

Dutch (v1.1)

Male x 2

Female x 2

Child

Volume
Speed up to 400

Aspiration
Intonation

Reading modes

MS-SAPI

DTMF-tones

Windows:
486 DX 33 MHz
8 Mb memory
10 Mb disk

Formant

Infovox 330 (Under development) | see above | Windows 95/NT | Br English German Dutch | see above | see above | Windows 95/NT: Pentium 8 Mb memory (16 Mb for NT) | Diphone Concat.
DECtalk | Digital Equipment Corporation 20 Forbes Road Northboro, MA 01532, USA http://www.digital.com | PC ISA/EISA RS232/423 Desktop Windows 95/NT | English German Spanish | Male x 4 Female x 4 Child | Speed 75-650 MS-SAPI DTMF-tones | Windows: 486 DX 50 MHz 8 Mb memory | Formant
Bell Labs TTS TrueTalk AT&T Watson FlexTalk Pentium 75 | AT&T Bell Laboratories (Lucent) http://www.bell-labs.com/projects/tts Entropic Research Laboratory http://www.entropic.com/products/tts AT&T Advanced Speech Product Group

http:/www.att.com/aspg/odemo.html

UNIX

Windows 95

English
French
Spanish
Italian
German
Russian
Romanian
Chinese
Japanese

Male
Female

Speed

Intonation contours

Lexical stress

Sentence accent

Segmental durations

Pitch and pitch range

Gender

Age

Vocal track scaling

glottal source param.

32 Mb memory

15 Mb disk

Pentium 75

2 Mb memory

10 Mb disk

Concat.

Laureate | British Telecom (BT) http://www.labs.bt.com/innovate/ speech/laureate | - | English | Male Female | - | - | Concat.
Orator | Bellcore (Bell Communications Research) http://www.bellcore.com/ORATOR | UNIX LINUX | English | Male | - | 16 Mb memory | Concat.
SoftVoice | SoftVoice, Inc. people@text2speech.com http://www.text2speech.com | Windows | English Spanish | Male Female Child Robot Alien Colossus Martian ... (> 20) | Speed 20-800 Pitch 10-2000 Hz Breathiness ... (> 30) Mouth shape data

Singing

-

Formant

ProVerbe Speech Engine (CNET PSOLA) | Elan Infromatique Voice Processing 4, rue Jean Rodier 31400 Toulouse France http//www.elan.fr | RS232 or RS458 | Am. English Br. English French German Spanish | Male Female | Speed Pitch DTMF-tones | - | Concat. PSOLA
Lernout & Hauspie | L&H TTS Products 20 Mail Road, 4th floor Burlington, MA 01803, USA. sales@lhs.com http://www.lhs.com | Windows 95/NT | English Germany Dutch French Spanish
Italian
Korean

Male

Female

Volume
Speed
Pitch

Prosody tool

SAPI

2..3 Mb memory

Concat.

Eurovocs | Technologie & Revalidatie (T&R) Postbus 128 B-9000 Gent, Belgium. http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/t%26i/ eurovocs.htm | RS232 Desktop | Am. English Dutch German French Spanish
Italian

Female

Volume

Speech rate

-

Concat.

MacinTalk 2 | Apple Computers Inc. http://www.apple.com/ptk/voices.html | Macintosh | English | Male Female Child (10 total) | Speed Pitch Emphasis | Any Mac 150 kb memory | Concat.
MacinTalk 3 | see above | see above | English | Male Female Child (19 total) | Speed Pitch Emphasis Singing Special effect voices | 68030 33MHz 300 kb memory | Formant
MacinTalkPro | see above | see above | English Mex. Spanish | Male Female Child (5 total) | Speed Pitch Emphasis | 68040 1.5 Mb memory | Concat.
CyberTalk | Panasonic Technologies, Inc. Speech Technology Laboratory Santa Barbara, California cybertalk@stl.research.panasonic.com http://www.research.panasonic.com/pti/ stl/stl_web_demo/demo.html | Window 3.1/95/NT | English | Male Female | SAPI-support | 800 kb memory + 360 kb to 3.5 Mb for speech data | Hybrid Formant/ Concat.
AcuVoice | AcuVoice, Inc. 84 W. Santa Clara St. Suite 720, San Jose CA 95113-1810, USA http://www.acuvoice.com | Windows 95/NT UNIX | English | Male | SAPI-support | Pentium 75 MHz 160 Mb Disk 8 Mb mem (UNIX: 32 Mb) | Concat.
MBROLA (Free for non-commercial use) | MBROLA Project Developing Team Faculte Polytech. de Mons, TCTS Lab. 31, bvd dolez, B-7000 Mons, Belgium. mbrola@tcts.fpms.ac.be http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/ mbrola.html | PC / UNIX | Am. English Br. English French Dutch German
Portuguese
Romanian
Spanish

one voice -

one database

-

-

Diphone based concat.

ETI Eloquence | ETI Eloquent, Inc. 2389 N. Triphammer Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. http://www.eloq.com | Windows 95/NT | Am. English Br. English Mex. Spanish Cast. Spanish French
German
Italian

Male

Female

Gender
Head size
Pitch baseline
Pitch fluctuation
Roughness
Breathiness
Speed
Volume

SAPI-support

468 66 MHz

8 Mb memory

Formant (Klatt)

MS Whistler | Microsoft Corporation http://research.microsoft.com/ research/srg | - | English | - | - | - | -
Festival (Free for non-commercial use) | University of Edinburgh http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ | UNIX | English | Male | - | - | -
NeuroTalker | International Neural Machines (INM) 175 Columbia Street West, Suite 203 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ineural.com/products.html | Windows 3.x/95/NT | English | - | Scanner support | 486 DX 8 Mb memory | -
ModelTalker | University of Delaware http://www.asel.udel.edu/speech/ Dsynterf.html | UNIX | English | Male (Female) (Child) Neutral happy sad frustration assertive suprise contradiction | - | - | Diphone concat.
Listen2 English Listen2 International | JTS Microconsulting Ltd. RR#4, 10931, Lytton Road Ladysmith, B.C., Canada | Windows | English German French Italian Spanish | Male Female (6 total) | Volume Speed Pitch scale | 486 8 Mb memory | -
SPRUCE | University of Bristol http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/ ~eric/research/spruce97.html | PC / UNIX | English | - | - | - | High-level
Hadifix | University of Bonn http://asl1.ikp.uni-bonn.de/~tpo/ Hadifix.en.html | - | German | - | - | - | Concat
SVOX | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland. http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/w3svox | - | German | - | - | - | Concat
Synte 3 | TTKK / TKK | - | Finnish | Male | - | - | formant
Mikropuhe | Timehouse Corp. Thurmanin puistotie 12 02700 Kauniainen http://www.timehouse.fi | Windows 3.x/95/NT DOS Macintosh | Finnish | Male Robot Donald | Speed Pitch Pitch randomness Peacefullness Word pauses | 486DX25 4 MB memory | microph. concat
Sanosse | Sanosse Corp. University of Turku http://www.psy.utu.fi/otk/tuotteet | - | Finnish | Male | - | - | concat.