Lernout & Hauspie Text-to-Speech (3 products)
Lernout & Hauspie have three TTS products. The functionality of
the products is similar, however, they differ in hardware implementation
and other details where described below.
- L&H tts2000/T: TTS for the Telephony and
Telecommunications Market
- L&H tts2000/M: TTS for the Computer and Multimedia
Market
- L&H tts3000/C: TTS for the Buisness and Consumer
Electronics Market
- Description: Text to Speech (TTS) software based on
parameterized segment concatenation (diphones, triphones and
tetraphones) algorithms. Available for US English, German, Dutch,
French, Spanish (Castilian), Italian and Korean. General features
include:
- The control of volume, speech rate and speech pitch.
- The use of control sequences to customize TTS output (adding
pauses, using phonetic input, etc.).
- Switching between languages at run time.
- A personal vocabulary editor is available for building exception
dictionaries.
- Readout modes: letter by letter, word by word or sentence by
sentence.
- Input formats: orthographic input, phonetic input, phonetic input
with prosodic information.
- tts2000/T
- Output formats: 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law PCM, 16 bit linear
PCM.
- Sampling Frequency: 8kHz
- Single channel platform examples: SHARP SH7000, ARM6/ARM7, Intel
i960, TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
- Multi-channel platform examples: TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
- tts2000/M
- Output formats: 8/16 bit wave format, 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law
PCM, 16 bit linear PC.
- Sampling Frequency: 8/10/11.025 kHz
- Single processor platform examples: ARM6/ARM7, Intel
386/486/Pentium, Motorola 68040
- Two processor platform examples: {Intel 386/486/Pentium or Motorola
68030} and {ADI ADSP21XX or Motorola 5600X or TI TMS320C25/20C5X}
- tts3000/C
- Output formats: 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law PCM, 16 bit linear
PCM.
- Sampling Frequency: 10kHz
- Single processor platform examples: SHARP SH7000, ARM6/ARM7, Intel
i960, TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
- Two processors platform examples: { SHARP SH7000 or ARM6/ARM7 or
Intel 386EX or Motorola 683XX} and {ADI ADSP21XX or Motorola 5600X or TI
TMS320C25/C5X or TI TSP50C10}
- See also: L&H
Windows TTS SDK
- More Information: on the Lernout & Hauspie WWW pages:
http://www.lhs.com/tts.html
- Price: Unknown
- Contact:
Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products
20 Mall Road, 4th Floor
Burlington, MA 01803, USA
Ph: +1-617-238-0960, Fax: +1-617-238-0986
Email: sales@lhs.com
WWW: http://www.lhs.com/
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