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.
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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:
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.
Join other companies
using Hybrid ORATOR II - listen to Hybrid ORATOR II below!
Samples demonstrating
the sound quality of Hybrid ORATOR II, Version 2.2:
Listen to applications employing the same
voice for prerecorded prompts and synthesized speech:
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.
ORATOR is a registered trademark of Telcordia Technologies, Inc,
the parent of Applied Communication Sciences.
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!
• "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."
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.
places and businesses
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?
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.
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.
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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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