I will be particpating in a panel about accessible online text content and electronic books for people with disabilities at the most important French book fair called the “Salon du Livre” on March 17 from 11h30 to 13h. The audio channel for electronic books is a hot topic right now with [...]
We are currently working very hard to fix a lot of pronunciation corrects (words that are read in a strange/funny/wrong way) in the text-to-speech voices. No text-to-speech engines are perfect, so sometimes it is needed to “learn” it how certain words should be pronounced.
Words such as Foreign words, brand names, technical [...]
As you might have remembered when I wrote a post about From birth of the talking web and into the future. I owed you a follow-up note so here it is! As I had discussed, we started out by having a focused approach on which customers we should approach and which [...]
My colleague and co-blogger Daniel Erkstam has just published a good article about the history of text-to-speech technology. Click here to read the full article about the history of TTS.
We have been in the business of speech-enabling web sites since 1999, date at which I had the idea to bring text-to-speech into the arena of web sites. What was my motivation for doing so? I realised that a certain number of people around me had problems or felt uncomfortable reading [...]
A few days ago Google announced that they begin to experiment with text-to-speech on their “Knol”.
Quote from their site: “We are experimenting with Audio Playback as an option for some knols, starting with a handful of English language featured knols. You can listen using our Flash player, or by downloading an [...]
The other day I was standing in the hotel bar watching the TV. The volume was turned down completely but thanks to the real-time captioning I was able to follow the news broadcast. The day after, I was spending some hours waiting for my delayed flight at Heathrow airport to get ready [...]
In August we are releasing the support for Chinese and Arabic on the ReadSpeaker Enterprise Services platform. Please contact info@voice-corp.com or stay tuned to this blog to hear more about it.
This is a post from todays guest blogger: Daniel Erkstam, Nordic Sales Director for VoiceCorp.
The pictures shows two robots. The left one is an industrial robot from ABB that probably is used to build cars or something similar. The right one is one of the most advanced AI robots that can be found [...]
A sausage says more then a thousand words.
Scan, one of the leading Swedish brands just launched a really great viral marketing campaign using VoiceCorps SpeechMachine solution. The idea for the campaign is quite cool. The campaign is for marketing Scan’s new line of spicy sausages. They wanted to add some nice [...]
