Sound Bytes DeveloperUs Kit

• Platform: Subroutine library for Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh

• Hardware: Windows - 16 MHz 80386 (minimum) running Windows 3.1; 4 Mb RAM with at least 1.4 Mb RAM free. Disk space 1.4 Mb.
  OS/2 - 16 MHz 80386 (minimum) running OS/2 2.0 or above; 8 Mb RAM with at least 1.4 Mb RAM free.
  Mac - Any Mac with at least 2.5 Mb of RAM running 6.0.4 or higher. Telephone compatible. Compatible with commonly used sound cards.

• Description: SBDK is a software-only sentence-level synthesizer that converts unrestricted English text (ASCII) into synthesized voice through diphone concatenation. SBDK utlizes parsing to incorporate the intonational and rhythmic patterns of normal speech. The developerUs kit includes two voices, one female and one male. The product has a 55,000-word built-in dictionary and a tool for creating customized user dictionaries. It converts numbers, dates, dollars, phone numbers and times to words, and has a SoundOut facility that provides a choice of pronouncing unknown words phonetically or spelling them out. Developers can vary voice pitch (130-220 Hz) and rate (65-200 wpm), synchronize speech to other events, have multiple channels of speech to the same or different boards, etc. Speech sampling options: 8-bit linear; 8-bit companded at 11 kHz (Windows); 8-bit mu-law PCM at 8 or 11 kHz; 16-bit linear at 11 kHz.
• Cost: Sound Bytes may be licensed for internal use or resale. Site license fee= $3750. Resale or Internal runtime fees= 2% of net sales price per runtime sold, OR $150 per telephone port, OR per unit pricing for internal use determined case-by-case.
• Misc: Demo disks are available for Windows and the Mac.
• Availability: Natural Speech Technologies, Inc.
  Ph: (619) 457-2526.

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