News & Blog

18/01/2013 - Opening CereProc's Wonder Emporium of Text-to-Speech

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse

Sometimes, we all need a little light reading to explore further than current projects demand. In this series of blogs - our Wonder Emporium - we'll share some of the more unusual aspects of text-to-speech that are close to CereProc's heart. Because for us, it isn't what speech technology does today, it's what it will be doing tomorrow that excites our team.

08/01/2013 - CereProc gives Jason Bradbury robot - RoboJase - his own voice on The Gadget Show

Showcasing some of the best and most innovative Scottish companies, and looking into the work being done throughout the country, last night's episode of tech TV heavyweight The Gadget Show was fantastic, and of course we're delighted to have been involved, and have our speech synthesis technology featured during the 'tech travel' segment presented by hosts Pollyanna Woodward and Jason Bradbury.

14/12/2012 - Multicultural smartphones with personality: CereProc's Android apps deliver diverse range of English language accents

The English speaking world boasts a huge number of colourful accents. Here at CereProc, we believe this should be celebrated and as a result, are committed to moving text-to-speech away from the unnatural voices with starchy British accents that are typically applied to synthetic speech output.

30/11/2012 - Articulate: The Art and Science of Speech Synthesis

CereProc is proud to be part of an innovative new exhibition featuring text-to-speech technology, Articulate: The Art and Science of Synthetic Speech. The free interactive road-show, put together by the Creative Speech Technology Network (CreST) starts on Monday December 3rd 2012 in York. It will be touring Yorkshire and Humberside until January 26th 2013.

16/10/2012 - CereProc's text-to-speech Obama and Romney Nutbots get Animated

Text to speech (TTS) experts CereProc, in partnership with Idyacy, have enhanced their Mitt Romney and Barack Obama chatbots - Presidential Nutbots (as featured at this year's Turing Festival in Edinburgh).

25/09/2012 - TTS Provider CereProc Updates Its Core Product

Text-to-speech provider CereProc has launched CereVoice 3.0.4, the updated version of its core speech synthesis engine, offering users additional platform compatibility and improved performance.

The updated version features voices that are even more natural and expressive, and produce speech output in more languages and accents than ever before, while the introduction of support for the Raspberry Pi extends CereProc's technology to reach additional mobile device users.

13/09/2012 - Text to Speech expert CereProc unveils findings to peers at InterSpeech 2012

A senior team from text to speech (TTS) company CereProc will today present their paper Proper Name Splicing in Computer Games with TTS to delegates at Interspeech 2012, a global leading conference on speech technology, taking place in Portland, Oregon.

07/09/2012 - CereProc heads to global speech technology conference, InterSpeech 2012

A select team of text to speech experts is leaving from CereProc HQ in Edinburgh to travel to the United States for this year's Interspeech 2012 event. Taking place in Portland, Oregon, the conference - attended by a prestigious audience of speech technology experts, scientists and industry engineers - will undoubtedly produce some very interesting discussions based on the key findings delivered by experts working and researching within the speech synthesis industry.

23/08/2012 - Text to speech experts CereProc set to showcase Presidential Nutbots at Turing Festival 2012

A team from text to speech (TTS) company CereProc is set to present a live demonstration of its Mitt Romney and Barack Obama chatbots - Presidential Nutbots - at this year’s Turing Festival in Edinburgh.

Nutbot picture

26/07/2012 - CereProc offers Android users a Scottish accent

Text to speech (TTS) expert CereProc has introduced a female Scottish accent to its wide range of English language synthetic voices for Android.

Joining a cast of US, Irish, and male Scottish English voices currently available on Google Play, the female Scottish voice - Heather - offers an emotional and characterful voice to any TTS enabled application that requires speech output.

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