Introduction

IRISA/CNETVOX is a “Text to Speech” conversion facility for building audio response systems involving, for example, large databases of frequently updated information. It is available today for French.

Key features

IRISA/CNETVOX allows the following components :

· An audio file generator for Unix platforms

· French language is produced with all appropriate punctuation and accentuation

Benefits

IRISA/CNETVOX is a complete software solution for the automatic translation of French text files into audio files (MU phone law coding).

This is useful for developing Audiotex applications to provide the spoken word from information extracted from the Information System databases. Typical applications are : phone order systems for direct mail and catalogue companies, e-mail conversion, sports results / newswires, etc.

It is also very useful when developing or prototyping IVR systems as developers can easily build the appropriate audiofiles.

Distinctive characteristics

· Based on algorithms developed by France Telecom research laboratories (CNET)

· A software only solution which doesn't require any dedicated board