Advantages of Voicent's
Text-to-Speech Plug-In
- One time purchase, use forever
- No monthly fee, no contract
- Works on any PC
- Feature rich and yet easy to use
- You can try it before you buy it
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What is TTS?
Text-to-Speech (TTS) is also called Speech Synthesis. It is the computer-generated voice that simulates human language pronounciation. For telephony applications, especially for regular telephone systems that do not have text capabilities, speech synthesis converts text to voice and then plays it over the phone.
What is a voice synthesizer or TTS Engine?
The two characteristics used to describe the quality of a speech synthesis system are naturalness and intelligibility. The naturalness of a speech synthesizer refers to how much the output sounds like the speech of a real person. The intelligibility of a speech synthesizer refers to how easily the output can be understood. The ideal speech synthesizer is both natural and intelligible, and each of the different synthesis technologies try to maximize both of these characteristics.
What is Speech Recognition?
This is the opposite of speech synthesis. Spoken voices are converted to text by a speech recognition engine.
Voicent Multilingual Text-To-Speech Plug-in converts text on a page into audible messages read by a computer-generated voice. Voicent's multilingual capability supports all TTS voices including English (American or European), Spanish, Italian, Chinese, German, Greek, Japanese, French and many more.
When broadcasting phone messages, you can combine our TTS messages with your pre-recorded message, creating personalized phone messages for each phone call. TTS eliminates the burden of recording variable information, such as names, account balances, delivery dates or whatever customized information you are broadcasting.
TTS is a must when you want to use dynamically generated information but cannot record the information before the phone call. It also is useful when you simply do not want to use your own voice for the phone calls.
Voicent TTS Plug-in is the most cost effective way to generate professional voice messages. It can easily use a single voice engine to serve multiple sessions (simultaneous phone calls).
Text-to-Speech Engine
To convert text to voice, you must have a text-to-speech engine and voices. Please note that Voicent TTS Plug-In does not include a TTS engine. However, a TTS engine and voice is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Microsoft Anna: This free TTS engine and voice is included in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Microsoft Mary, Mike, and Sam: These free, old and rather poor voices are provided by Microsoft for older operating systems, such as Windows 2000 and XP.
There are many commercial Text-to-Speech voice vendors including AT&T, Nuance, Neospeech and others. For more information, please take a look at: Nextup.com.
You must get a 8KHz TTS voice. This is the only requirement; others features, such as the number of TTS channels, server vs. desktop version, etc., are not important - they are implemented by Voicent's TTS PlugIn.
Voicent Text-to-speech Plug-In
A TTS engine can generate voice from text. However, these voices cannot be directly used by other programs. In order to use a TTS engine for Voicent programs, you must have our TTS Plug-In.
TTS Plug-In enables a TTS engine and voice to be used for telephone calls.
TTS Plug-In turns a TTS engine into a TTS server, allowing multiple channels to use a single engine simultaneously.
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