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Applied Communication Sciences' Speech Recognition Tools,
Name Pronunciation Package,
and Hybrid ORATOR® II Speech Synthesizer

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

Applied Communication Sciences' Hybrid ORATOR® II Speech Synthesizer provides high quality, highly accurate telephone access to database-driven information services through advanced text-to-speech synthesis.

Quick links:

  • Go to ASR/TTS Tools: Phonetic Pronunciation Package and Listings Preprocessing
  • Go to Hybrid Orator II Hybrid Orator II Features
  • Go to Combining natural speech with Orator II

     


    ASR/TTS Tools: Phonetic Pronunciation Package (Name Pronunciation Software) and Listings Preprocessing

    Applied Communication Sciences' Phonetic Pronunciation Package has unparalleled accuracy for US names, locations, and business names, based on more than 30 years of research on 100M telephone listings. If your company needs 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 ACS'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 ACS'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."
      • "Your software's 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 Pronunciation Package 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, Location Apps, Auto-attendants, Automated Directory Assistance, Drug Refill Reminders, Patient Appointment Reminders, Corporate Dialers, Stock Quotes, Credit Contacts, Directions and more.

    Applied Communication Sciences' 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 appcomsci.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 use.  


    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.

    Join other companies using Hybrid ORATOR II - listen to Hybrid ORATOR II below!
    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:

    • Names
    • Even More Uncommon Names (Thadeus Bialobrzeski, Said Habib, Tsuyoshi Utsunomiya, Theodoros Xanthopolous)
    • Directory listings
    • General-text sentences (Hear Hybrid ORATOR II introduce itself to you!)
     

    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:

    • Voice-activated dialing (Was that Ron Parker or John Marker?)
    • Financial updates (Stock info for "E-Trade Industries")
    • Telephony applications (Tsuyoshi Utsunomiya calls you; adding Erwin Baker for speedy dialing)

    Contact ACS'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.  


    Availability

    Licensing packages for the Phonetic Pronunciation Package, ORATOR System and API are available for all Windows platforms, Linux, Sun Solaris, and many others.

    Get ACS's name pronunciation software working in your applications.


    More information ...

    If you would like more information about licensing, contact the orator login at appcomsci.com or call 1-732-699-3205.

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