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 Tech
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.	
Product	Manufacturer or Developer	Platforms	Languages	Voices	Controls / Support	Requirements	Method	
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 
Mexican Spanish	Male
Female
Child
(5 total)

	Speed
Pitch
Emphasis	68040 
1.5 Mb memory	Concat.	
Product	Manufacturer or Developer	Platforms	Languages	Voices	Controls / Support	Requirements	Method	
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 and 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, Inc. (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		
Product	Manufacturer or Developer	Platforms	Languages	Voices	Controls / Support	Requirements	Method	
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.kolumbus.fi/topteam	Windows 3.x/95/NT
Macintosh	Finnish	Male
Robot
Donald	Volume
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.