Spoken interactive products and services of the highest calibre

• Spoken/voice user dialogue and interface design.

• Spoken information delivery and retrieval using the fastest, most natural, and comfortable means.

• Multilingual speech synthesis engine creation and integration for:

all major English varieties (US, UK, Australian, Canadian, etc.) all major Spanish varieties (Castilian, Latin-American, Central American) French Italian German Swedish Japanese • Integrational suitability analysis for concatenative and parametric speech synthesis engines • Naturalness testing for concatenative and parametric speech synthesis engines.

• Customized synthetic voices, and speaking animated agents according to customers’ preferences and needs.

• Phonetically encoded dictionaries for speech synthesis and speech recognition applications in multiple languages.

• Rules for letter-to-sound conversion, phoneme sets, prosody, and text normalization for multiple languages.

• Phonetically encoded grammars for speech recognition applications in multiple languages.

• Data collection for speech recognition in multiple languages: script design and supervision.

• Voice-mail and voice messaging script design, localization and recording.

• Localization and internationalization of text in 10 languages.

• Linguistic/phonetic creation and evaluation of product and business names.

• Expert witness language consulting.

• Business development liaison to national and international computer-telephony partners.