The ORATOR® Family of Speech Synthesizers

 Telcordia's Speech Recognition Tools
and the Hybrid ORATOR® II Speech Synthesizer

We offer Telcordia's Phonetic Pronunciation Package and directory processing tools to help Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis services achieve the highest accuracy for names of people, places, and businesses. We also offer Listings Preprocessing software that transforms telephone listings into natural language order for services such as automated Directory Assistance.

Telcordia's Hybrid ORATOR® II Speech Synthesizer also provides the tools for high quality, highly accurate telephone access to database-driven information services through advanced text-to-speech synthesis. The Hybrid ORATOR II synthesizer achieves near-human speech quality.

Quick links:

  • Go to ASR/TTS Tools: Phonetic Pronunciation Package and Listings Preprocessing
  • Go to Hybrid Orator II Hybrid Orator II Features and Online demos
  • Go to Combining natural speech with Orator II
  • Go to Ordering a demo of Orator II
  • Go to On-line licensing form for the Orator System

    ASR/TTS Tools: Phonetic Pronunciation Package and Listings Preprocessing

    Telcordia's Phonetic Pronunciation Package has unparalleled accuracy for US names, locations, and business names, based on more than 20 years of research on 100M telephone listings. If your company uses speech technology to recognize or speak names of any sort, our Pronunciation Package will help you develop name dictionaries of exceptional ASR accuracy and transform your synthesizer into a name maven. Newly added features: Pharmacy-standard pronunciations of every brand and generic drug prescribed in the US!

    • Highest accuracy available for names of people, places and businesses
    • Thousands of autheticated alternate pronunciations
    • Pharmacy-standard pronunciations for all prescribed drugs
    • Translation programs for all leading ASR and TTS engines
    • Easy-to-integrate API runtime or command-line binary
    • Proven utility

    Leading-edge companies have found Telcordia's Phonetic Pronunciation Package reduced their recognition errors for names by up to one-half. The package can be applied to any recognition or synthesis engine on the market. If the package does not already contain support for the engine you use, we will develop one at no charge. Contact us today to engage Telcordia's Phonetic Pronunciation Package for your company's services.

    Some sample testimonials:

      • "It was clear that your system was much better than our baseline."
      • "Pronunciations are at least as good as pronunciations hand-created by our linguists."
      • "Telcordia transcriptions are considerable more accurate than the ones from our current text-to-phoneme engine."
      • "The improvement in retrieval accuracy is quite significant."
      • "Quality of transcriptions: very good quality."
      • "The difference in recognition accuracy is very significant. We couldn't achieve this much improvement on our own."
      • "The Telcordia engine is the clear winner."
      • "We obtained retrievals rated 'excellent' for more than 92% of our listings."
      • "Your system generated better pronunciations ~3.4 times more often than our own."

    Fields of interest: Heathcare providers, Auto-attendants, Automated Directory Assistance, Drug Refill Reminders, Patient Appointment Reminders, Corporate Dialers, Stock Quotes, Credit Contacts, Automated Directions and more.

    Telcordia's Listings Preprocessing software converts telephone company listings into "natural language order," with exceptional accuracy, often reducing the error rates associated with unidentified acronyms, idiosyncratic abbreviations, and incorrect word ordering, by a factor of 20 or more. The software converts and corrects listings from the formats of all major listing vendors.

    Contact us at the orator login at research.telcordia.com and discover how our field-proven Pronunciation Package and Listings Preprocessing software can help you today.
    (The Pronunciation Package provides output in the format of all high-end speech recognition systems and text-to-speech engines; we will add translation schema for any ASR or TTS engine you require.)

    The Hybrid ORATOR II Synthesizer:

     ORATOR synthesizers are used in several major deployments - both regional and national - providing commercial services available to the general public, such as popular voice activated dialing, voice portal and reverse telephone directory services. License the technology that was featured in Scientific American!

    Features:

    The Hybrid ORATOR II synthesizer achieves near-human speech quality through improved coding techniques for an expanded sound inventory and context-sensitive sound units.

    Share our excitement for Hybrid ORATOR II - listen to Hybrid ORATOR II below!
    Also, check out the special opportunity to use the voice of Hybrid ORATOR II for your prerecorded prompts (see How to obtain the best of two worlds).

    What does Hybrid ORATOR II sound like?

    Samples demonstrating the sound quality of Hybrid ORATOR II, Version 2.2:

    Obtain the best of both worlds!

     Capitalize on the unique opportunity to use the human voice behind Orator II for your prompts. Don't settle for lower quality solutions that use mismatched, dissimilar voices! Research shows using the same voice for prompts and synthesis yields a seamless audio flow that - in certain cases - many people can't distinguish from a fully natural voice for the entire application.

    Listen to applications employing the same voice for prerecorded prompts and synthesized speech:

    Contact Telcordia's Sales Team at the email address below to obtain attractive packages combining licensing of the ORATOR II synthesizer and using the professional voice talent behind the synthesizer for your prompts.

    Demos are available!

    If you would like to obtain other samples of ORATOR II's capabilities, or If your platform for viewing this web site does not permit audio playback, order a demo.

    READ THIS before clicking button:     To receive a free demo of Orator II, press the button below. After entering your shipping address, you'll be prompted for payment options. The demo is free, so just click continue to skip past the 'payment options' page.

    Availability

     Licensing packages for the ORATOR System and API are available for Windows NT, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX (RS/6000), Linux, and Compaq OSF. Ports for Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not available.

    The ORATOR System has also been ported successfully to HP and Motorola platforms; arrangements can be made for ports to these and other operating systems.

    Obtain a Licensing Form. Get the Orator System working in your applications:
    View the On-Line Licensing Form

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     If you would like more information about licensing ORATOR II or the original ORATOR, contact the orator login at research.telcordia.com or call 1-800-521-2673.

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