Orator Text-to-Speech Synthesizer

• Platform: SUN SPARC, Decstation 5000. Written in C, and therefore portable to other UNIX platforms. Some successful ports: HP, RS-6000, PC-Unix [Linux].
• Description: Sophisticated speech synthesis package. Has text preprocessing (for abbreviations, numbers), acronym rules, and human-like spelling routines. Natural-sounding synthesis based on demisyllable concatenation. Has high accuracy for pronunciation of names of people, places and businesses in America; good accuracy for English text; rules for stress and intonation marking; various methods of user control and customization at most stages of processing.
  A new version of the ORATOR system is under development. Both ORATOR and this new "ORATOR II" system are capable of general text synthesis. The ORATOR II system has a more natural-sounding voice.
• Hardware: Runs on common SPARC or Decstation workstations, using their internal audio output capability. Recommend at least 16M of memory.
• WWW: More detailed information plus examples of ORATOR synthesis are available on the ORATOR WWW pages:
  http://www.bellcore.com/ORATOR/
• Misc 1: A free demo cassette is available.
• Misc 2: Examples of Orator are also available on the University of Birmingham Speech Synthesis "Museum" WWW site (see Q5.4).
• Availability and Pricing: Contact Bellcore's Licensing Office
  Tel: 1-800-521-CORE (521-2673)
  Fax: 1-908-336-2559
  Email: Anthony Lindsey: alin1@panix.com
  WWW: http://www.bellcore.com/ORATOR/

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