Speech technology on show at CeBIT

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 31, 2003

At CeBIT 2003 Aculab will highlight text-to-speech enhancements, its new speaker verification speech technology and its IP telephony cPCI card.

At CeBIT 2003 Aculab will highlight text-to-speech enhancements, its new speaker verification speech technology and its IP telephony cPCI card.

It will also show its new eight-port GroomerII for the first time.

Developed as a cost effective alternative for those who require all the functionality of GroomerII, but whose system is unlikely to exceed eight ports, the GroomerII offers a powerful and flexible means of providing interconnection between incompatible networks around the world.

Senior Aculab staff will be available to talk about Aculab's highly acclaimed speaker verification and identification (SVI) software.

This technology uses statistical data to confirm a caller's identity by their unique voiceprint, providing an extremely cost effective, convenient and secure way to access personal information over the phone.

The latest version of Aculab's text-to-speech (TTS) software will be demonstrated, which comes with improved accuracy and pronunciation for use in telephony applications and features a talking dictionary creation tool.

The new version software also supports W3C-standard speech synthesis mark-up language (SSML).

Used with Aculab's Prosody digital signal processor (DSP) resource cards, SVI and TTS are available under a cost free licence from Aculab's website.

Aculab's new standards based IP telephony cPCI card is designed for computer telephony developers and system integrators who are seeking to implement conversation quality speech over IP networks.

It offers up to 120 channels with low latency using H.323 or SIP in a single slot.

Alongside Aculab on the booth will be a number of "Connected with Aculab" partners that will demonstrate a variety of products with the Aculab portfolio.

They are: Alliance, GIQuadrat, Globitel, I3, Pronexus, Telenet and Zeacom.

For more information, visit Aculab and partners in Hall 13 on stand D34 at CeBIT, Germany, 12th-19th March 2003.