FonixTalk 6.0
FonixTalk 6.0 is multi-language TTS software featuring the industry’s smallest memory footprint, making it ideal for embedded
applications. FonixTalk builds upon Fonix’s legacy DECtalk® product, while making significant improvements in the technology’s
ability to produce more natural, less robotic-sounding synthetic speech.
FonixTalk 6.0 introduces an articulatory vocal tract model that creates a more natural-sounding voice, plus developers and clinicians can create modified voices in minutes.
FonixTalk 6.0’s small memory footprint and extensive operating system (OS) support allows developers to add speech output to many devices with small CPU capability or minimal memory. FonixTalk 6.0 also includes a new simplified API that will allow developers to integrate speech into their products or applications more quickly.
FonixTalk’s nine TTS voices feature improved naturalness, inflections, intonations, pauses and changes in pitch, speed and emphasis that, combined with the improved prosody, create a more normal speech pattern that is easier to listen to and to understand.
Features and Benefits
- The most highly intelligible, natural voices in the synthesized TTS market
- Intelligible at fast speaking rates
- Improved female and child voices
- Improved sentence-level phrasing and intonation provide more natural speech that is easier to listen to and comprehend
- Sophisticated pre-processing rules provide greater pronunciation and prosodic accuracy
- Multiple languages – Castilian/Latin American Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean, UK/US English, Chinese
- Developers and clinicians may create custom voices (less than 0.5 KB per voice)
- Expanded set of speech parameters, dynamic control over voice, pitch, speaking rate, stress and language, provide the ability to create custom voices and tune for specific acoustic environments
- Ability to change voices, languages, etc. on a word-by-word or sentence-by-sentence basis
- Full-featured TTS with a small memory footprint (less than 500 KB for a single language with up to nine voices; or less than 2.5 MB for all nine languages with nine voices per language)
- Flexibility to operate on many hardware and OS platforms
- C/C++/C#/Java/Visual Basic (VB) Interfaces
- SAPI 3, 4, 5 support
An efficient, scalable, low-cost solution
FonixTalk 6.0 software components and architecture are designed to operate directly on the main processor, eliminating the need
for an additional CPU or DSP. The flexible, self-contained modules allow developers to design systems to operate within memory
and MIPS constraints and to be highly portable across many processor and OS platforms. The TTS engine operates across a
full array of hardware and software combinations and includes a new simpler API, making time-to-market faster and cheaper for
developers.