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Technical data New in SpeechLab 2.0:
- New, natural sounding voices;
- Modulation of natural intonation contour of the sentences;
- Support of MS SAPI 5.1;
- Dynamic speech synthesis settings;
- Correct pronunciation of English words;
- User dictionary, allowing specific pronunciation of abbreviation, new words, special symbols etc.;
Advanced linguistic analysis
- Complete concordance with the Bulgarian language rules;
- Extended grammatical text processing by grammatical dictionary, containing of over 1 million word-forms and hundreds of contextual grammatical rules, achieving a precision of over 98,4%;
- Phonetization by means of over 100 context rules, as well as 1 million word-forms accent dictionary;
- Rules for homonym phonetization with pronunciation differences, between-words assimilation, vowel reduction, removing of clitics accents etc.
- Rules for determination of the intonation contour of the phrases and sentences;
Rich configuration possibilities
- Independent speed and pitch adjustment;
- Possibility for elimination of the abbreviation and punctuation reading, as well as the modulation of accents and intonation;
- Various settings of the Bulgarian and Latin spelling;
- Creation and edition of user's configuration profiles;
- Possibility for dynamic profiles switching with keyboard shortcuts;
Smooth and natural sounding
- Speech synthesis by a diphone concatenation in synchrony with the glottis closing;
- Spectrum interpolation during the diphone concatenation;
- Over 1200 diphones, extracted from a studio record by using of laryngograph;
- Voices of popular professional announcers. (Gergana Stoyanova, from the show "Inache" of BTV, Vania Mollova from BNR and Dimitar Krustev)
Highly efficient implementation
- Realization of the text processing by bimachines and sequential transducers;
- Very high synthesis speed – over 1500 words per second;
- Implemented completely in ANSI C;
- Full platform-independence of the main module;
System requirements
- Operating system: Windows 98/2000/XP;
- Processor: Pentium or compatible, working on over 266 MHz;
- Memory: over 64 MB RAM and 200 MB free disc space.
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