The Indian Language Text to Speech Software

Features

• The first, high quality Indian Language Text to Speech Software for Indian Languages
• Cutting edge technology used to create life-like, natural sounding speech
• Currently supports Hindi - ongoing work for Indian English and 7 other major Indian languages
• Domain independence - no restrictions on vocabulary/ domain of text
• Multiple Male/ Female voices for different kinds of applications
• Large custom dictionary implementation to handle abbreviations, special pronunciations
• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98/ 95, Linux compliant
• Text Input:
  • Supports Romanised Hindi (Transliteration) input
  • Supports both Unicodeand ISCII Devanagiri input
  • Support for Third party fonts and font families e.g. Akshar, APS, Akshara, ISM, Leap, Chanakya, Shusha, Shivaji, Kruti Series & popular fonts such as Agra, Krishna and Chandni
• Rule based approach helps control:
  • Option to speak numbers as individual digits (phone numbers, etc.)
  • Indian Currency (Rupees, Paise), Arabic Number System (Crore, Lakh, etc.),Decimal digits

Applications:

1. Communications - Email/ Document reader, Automatic voice overs to Hindi presentations, Readout of Hindi websites, Notification alerts, Email/ News over telephone, Hindi messaging, etc.
2. Education and Literacy- Readout text from Hindi e-books,teaching aids,electronic blackboards, talking toys, slates; Aid Hindi learning/ propagation of Hindi; Disseminating adult education to farmers, rural population over Info-Thelas/ Cyber Kiosks/ Community Information Centres, etc.
3. Services - Election/ examination results, Health updates, Travel information, Traffic updates over telephone; Directory enquiry services, Voice portals, Hindi SMS to speech, Telematics, Location locators, Name readout of Indian names in Roman, etc.
4. E-Governance - Land Records information over telephone, Election services such as polling center information, Mandi prices, Govt. policy information, Application tracking/monitoring, Information dispersal through digital mandi's, kiosks, etc.

1. Desktop version:
   • As a SAPI compliant library for developers, ISVs, System Integrators - for desktops/kiosks
   • As a Plug-in for MS Office on PCs - enables read out of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, websites, etc.
Microsoft Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 97 compliant
2. Vaachak™ TTS Server edition: For high performance IVR/enterprise environments - SAPI compliant SDK.

3. Low resource platforms such as PocketPC:: Successfully integrated with PocketPC/WinCE. Can be easily integrated with Handheld platforms such as Simputer, Symbian, PalmOS and other embedded platforms.