Conall Major (12) of Edinburgh visited CereProc office last week to learn all about speech synthesis. He worked with CereProc’s CSO Dr Matthew Aylett and had some fun playing around with our novelty Donald and Hillary voices. Conall said that the most difficult part of the work experience was finding something funny for the Hillary voice to say!
We think he did a brilliant job and wanted to share some of the samples Conall created.
Listen to Donald discuss his views on Mexicans and other matters:
CereProc, in partnership with the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM) , is proud to announce the release of the new text to speech voice (‘Ylva’) that will help thousands of users across Sweden.
As well as leading CereProc’s research and development team, Matthew is also a Royal Society Research Fellow and carries out research projects at The University of Edinburgh.
His impressive and in many ways unique career path is featured in the case study recently published by The Royal Society.
A team from CereProc supported by Dr Eduardo Manuel De Brito Lima Ferreira Coutinho from the Imperial College demonstrated various aspects of speech synthesis at the Science Museum in London, as part of the Royal Society’s the Next Big Thing project.
Lisa Leoni discusses in her latest blog post how text to speech helps her work more efficiently and improve her writing. For her new novel set in Scotland, CereProc’s Stuart is the best voice for the job.
“I discovered, and subsequently fell in love with, Scottish Stuart on Cereporc. I’m writing contemporary romance set in Scotland with a Scottish hero and I wanted a level of authenticity in my text-to-speech experiences. *cough* Or something like that. After purchasing the voice it was super easy to install it to my machine.”
The way we interact with technology is changing - through mobile devices, Siri -like personal assistants, robotics, gaming, wearable technology and more - and synthetic speech is an integral part of that. Text to speech voices need to not only be good enough to deliver a seamless communication experience through conversational interfaces but also delight the user!
2016 has been a year to remember, mostly for upsetting reasons… But it hasn’t been all bad so let’s try to focus on the positive and here’s hoping 2017 comes up trumps!
Here’s a quick round up of CereProc’s achievements. Big thank you to all our customers and partners for making it a great year!
As one of the few remaining UK owned and operated mass notification companies Alert Cascade's latest platform release builds on the UK theme by including regional TTS voices designed and engineered by CereProc.