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Babel
Technologies and Babel-Infovox demonstrates its latest technologies and products
all over the world this Fall.
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Langtech,
Berlin, September 26-27, 2002, Hall Tessin Booth 6T
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Gitex,
Dubai, October 13-17, 2002, Booth # 810 (Hall 8)
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Convergence
2002, Detroit, October 21-23, 2002, Booth # 553 (Cobo Hall)
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SMAU,
Milan, October 24-28, 2002, Hall 11 Booth G20
Don’t miss these
opportunities to learn about the latest developments in speech
technologies.
Click here
to set-up a meeting with one our technology specialists.
Babel
Infovox appoints CEO.
Former
General Manager of ScanSoft Nordic, Lars-Erik Larsson, has joined Babel
Technologies as Chief Executive Officer of Babel Infovox. Larsson’s
appointment is effective immediately and he will based at Babel Infovox’
Swedish office.
Larsson
will be responsible for Babel Infovox' corporate strategy, its day-to-day
operations in the Nordic regions and for strengthening the company's messaging
and positionning int he Nordic market.
Larsson
has over 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, working with
organizations including Unisys and GlobalOne ( a member of the France Telecom
Group ).
Prior
to joining Babel, Larsson was a senior director at speech and language
specialist, Lernout & Hauspie. There, Larsson was responsible for
establishing and developping the company's presence in the Nordic region, as
well as being responsible for the company's sales and marketing operation in
that territory.
Commenting
on Larsson's appointment, Vincent Fontaine, CEO of Babel Technologies said :
"Lars-Erik joins Babel at an exciting time. The speech and language market
is buoyant and Babel is experiencing increasing demand for its speech and
language solutions. With his experience of the speech and language sector and
his understanding of the Nordic region, Lars-Erik will play an invaluable role
in further developing Babel's presence in the Nordic territory."
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Babel
Technologies announces first Arabic language version of a speaker independent,
medium vocabulary with continuous speech adapted to Telecom, Multimedia and
Mobile applications - Babel is the first and only multi-lingual speech
technology developer to have developed an Arabic language version of its speech
recognition and text-to-speech technologies. Babel
Technologies' Arabic-language Speech Recognition System has been developed for
Telecom and Multimedia applications, and it enables developers to integrate
robust speech recognition in Arabic for any application. As
well as being the only company to enable developers to embed both ASR and TTS in
Arabic into their projects, Babel Technologies is the only company to offer 18
languages for TTS and 12 for ASR. For
technical specifications, please visit : http://www.babeltech.com/tproducts-asr.htm Babel
releases Infovox Desktop - a diphone-based text to speech software built with a
library of pre-recorded human speech diphones. Babel's
Infovox Desktop offers almost unlimited application opportunities to
organisations utilizing synthetic speech as an effective information carrier, or
for those organizations that want to integrate synthetic speech into products or
services. Applications for Infovox Desktop include the learning and education
sector, where it can be used to assist people with learning difficulties, or it
can be used to benefit disabled people by providing them with easy access to
information and services. New
Features
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Graphical
Equaliser to adjust acoustical features of each voice as you wish
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A
new KeySpeaker feature, which spells and reads and can write in any windows
program
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Simplified
management of licensing system
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Improved
voice manager (enables you to create new voices with specific voice
settings, equaliser settings and user lexicon association).
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Improved
install / uninstall program
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Microsoft
Speech API SAPI 4.0 compliant
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Full
control of voice parameters like pitch, volume and intonation
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Variable
reading speech
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Build
and edit user lexicons for any language.
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Languages
available: UK, US English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Dutch,
Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Spanish and Italian.
For
more information, please contact: http://www.infovox.se
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Toby-Churchill
extends partnership with Babel Technologies Toby-Churchill
Ltd, the leading manufacturer of portable text-based communication aids for
people with speech disabilities, has extended its existing agreement with Babel
to now include new languages recently released by Babel Technologies. This
contract extension will enable UK-based Toby-Churchill to localize its
Lightwriter products to Czech, Turkish and Arabic languages. Toby-Churchill
Ltd is using Pocket Babil TTS system for its Linux based embedded platform ( PDA
) for speech-disabled people. More
Information
Talking
Web pages in the city of Uppsala Public
service information in Sweden is now widely available via teh Internet. In the
city of Uppsala, where the majority of the households have access to the net, a
recently set-up website has becone one of the most important channels of
information for a whole new group of users. The service - Internet Sound
Interface ( tm ) - boasts web pages that talk, making it ideal for residents of
Uppsala who may be disabled, or suffer from defective vision or dyslexia. For
this group, the speaking Internet service is free of charge. At the core of the
site, is Babel's Infovox 330 TTS system, wich enables the contents of the site
to be read aloud to those who visit it. Please
find more information at - http://www.uppsala.se/lyssna |
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