Daily News Redux…
Daily News Redux:
- Some electronic dictionary news. Coolsoft Coolexon electronic dictionary features 60 languages, including translation and TTS accessibility features, is only 3.3MB large. Also in the news, Ultralingua and Collins partner to release electronic dictionaries.
- Some business automation success stories using speech recognition.
- Some more semantic search engine-related news featuring ZoomInfo and Cognition.
- Arab language speech recognition market growing.
- Wizzard announces 2006 financial results.
Questions of the day:
- Web X.0 IEEE workshop. What role will NLP play?
- Are GPS navigation systems driving the TTS market (links randomly chosen from recent navigation system releases)?
April 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Coolexon is only 3.3Mo … just for a software and one lexicon.
You can DOWNLOAD additional lexicons for the 60 languages … but each lexicons is several ko …
And for the TTS … yes, it uses Sapi5 … so it can use all your sapi5 voices :-) … it didn’t come with a specific TTS.
So, the soft seems pretty … but the PR is … a bit lyar :-) j
April 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. 3.3MB for a full TTS does seem a stretch, unless it does formant synthesis.
Merci.
April 6th, 2007 at 9:03 am
diphone synthesis is possible with 3.3MB … by reducing the quality by codage (MBROLA, TD-PSOLA …) … and even unit selection synthesis is possible with HNM synthesis
(but i would’nt use that :-) …)