An Irish technology firm and a Polish text-to-speech specialist have successfully integrated their technologies in a multilingual solution. Voxpilot, which is headquartered in Paris but with its R&D activities based in Dublin, has teamed up with Ivona of Gdynia to harmonise their software.
Voxpilot is a specialist in interactive voice and video response platforms, while IVO Software focuses on text-to-speech solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.
The result of integrating Ivona Text-To-Speech (TTS) with Voxpilot's Open Media Platform (OMP) is Ivona Telecom Text-To-Speech, a solution designed for developing systems such as contact centre IVR and voice self services. It comes with a command line interface together with compliance with the Microsoft Speech API and MRCP standard. Ivona TTS currently supports US English, Romanian and Polish voices.
Ivona TTS analyses and interprets text using proprietary algorithms based on artificial intelligence and "reads" it out loud in a natural, human-like way. The synthesised text can be sent directly to a telephone line or saved to a file. Its architecture means Ivona Telecom can handle over 100 channels using single core processor power.
Integrating with the Voxpilot OMP through MRCP, the Ivona TTS solution provides text-to-speech resources to the distributed call control and VoiceXML-based media processing platform. The technology uses a combination of advanced PSTN features and IMS-ready VoIP capabilities to rapidly deliver high quality interactive telecommunications with DTMF, speech recognition, text-to-speech and multimedia services is possible all on a single platform.
