Speak&Win

ELeX Speak&Win® is a Text-to-Speech System in the 6th generation based on a new technology (corpus based synthesis with non uniform units from Acapela Speech) which reaches with the ELeX dictionaries (built up since 1993 in 6 languages) an up to now unknown quality of speech. Pronunciation errors are almost unknown, even proper and foreign names are pronounced correctly! Speech and pitch can be regulated separately.

ELeX Speak&Win® combines Multimedia with the SSIL and Jaws (most common Sreenreader in the world) interfaces. Speak&Win® enables you to use the complete functionality of SSIL compliant screenreaders with Dagmar and Thomas and other popular and well understandable TTS voices. The ELeX Speak&Win® voices are sampled with 16 kHz, 22 kHz respectively, generating excellent audio output.

ELeX Speak&Win® is completely rule-based. Thus its vocabulary is unlimited. Exceptions may be added by the user to an unlimited size. Speak&Win® has an outstanding reaction time for both starting and stopping. Indexing is included through markers and enables tracking of the text-to-speech output.

ELeX Speak&Win® runs on every multi-media PC with at least 200 MHz-CPU, 32 MB RAM and a sound card. All common Windows operating systems are supported.

Specification:

• Support of Win95, Win98, NT4, Win2000, WinXP
• Interfaces: SSIL (for SuperNova, ZoomText, OpenBook, etc), Jaws interface
• Integrated editor
• Copy protection either software based (Everlock) or hardware based (USB / parallel dongle)
• Available in the following languages:
  • German (Dagmar & Thomas)
  • US English (Mary, Paul & William)
  • UK English (Vicky & Gordon)
  • French (Cathy & Robert)
  • Spanish (Veronica & Rafael)
  • Italian (Sofia & Massimo)
  • Latin American Spanish (Andres)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Joana & Pedro)
  • Dutch (Maarten)
  • Polish (Radek)
  • Russian (Nicolai)
  • Arabic (Merwan)