Dialogue and interface design
Spoken and voice user dialogue design for natural information delivery and retrieval.
Services
Spoken interactive products and services of the highest calibre
Speech technology consulting for organizations building natural, multilingual, and technically robust spoken interfaces.
Speech synthesis creation
Engine creation and integration for English varieties, Spanish varieties, French, Italian, German, Swedish, and Japanese.
Engine evaluation
Suitability analysis and naturalness testing for concatenative and parametric speech synthesis engines.
Custom voices and agents
Customized synthetic voices and speaking animated agents shaped to customer preferences and needs.
Additional Capabilities
- 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.
- Phonetically encoded grammars for speech recognition applications.
- Data collection for speech recognition, including script design and supervision.
- Voice-mail and voice messaging script design, localization, and recording.
- Localization and internationalization of text in 10 languages.
- Linguistic and phonetic creation and evaluation of product and business names.
- Expert witness language consulting.
- Business development liaison to national and international computer-telephony partners.