Cepstral News

Online Virtual Worlds Get a Virtual Voice

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC, in partnership with IMVU developer Cassiopeian Ltd, today announced the release of imVoices, a new widget for the IMVU Virtual World (www.imvu.com). imVoices leverages Cepstral's VoiceForge service to bring entertaining character voices to avatars, and is the first Text-to-Speech (TTS) application targeted at virtual worlds. IMVU is a rapidly growing 3D instant messenger and has more than 1 million beta customers.

Popular IVR Voice Now Available in Dynamic Text-to-Speech Version

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC and Digium Inc., working with popular IVR voice talent Allison Smith, have partnered to produce a Text-to-Speech (TTS) version of Allison's ubiquitous IVR voice. Allison is the default voice of the Asterisk(R) open-source telephone system, with millions of installed copies. Allison's voice can be found on systems for Verizon, Qwest, Cingular, Bank of America, Marriott Hotels, Ebay, 3M, and other high-profile companies.

Cepstral Donates Open Source MRCP Stack to Telephony Industry

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC is proud to announce that it is providing the first open source Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) library, OpenMRCP, at no charge to telephony application developers today. Cepstral is donating OpenMRCP to the developer community in order to spur the development of telephony applications that interact with Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition.

Build Your Own Talking Voices with VoiceForge(tm) by Cepstral

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC announced the release of VoiceForge(tm), a web 2.0 product that can turn a set of recorded audio prompts into a Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice capable of saying anything. With VoiceForge(tm), companies or actors can capture or "bank" their voices on their own.

New Cepstral Community Forum

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- December 1, 2006 -- Cepstral LLC today expanded its web site to include a Community User Support Forum. All Cepstral Voice users are invited to join the Forum to help build a strong user Community around the use of Cepstral voices. The Community Forum can be accessed at http://www.cepstral.com/forum.

I6NET & Cepstral Announce Text-To-Speech Partnership for Interactive Voice Response Telephony

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST

MADRID SPAIN -- 11/20/2006 -- I6NET, a Spanish company specialising in Interactive Voice & Video Response Technologies which combine voice, video and web-enabled VoiceXML applications, has today announced a partnership agreement with Cepstral LLC, a speech technology company based in the USA.

Cepstral Now Accepts PayPal for On-line Transactions

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- October 20, 2006 -- Cepstral LLC today expanded the capabilities of its on-line storefront to include PayPal as an available method of payment for its customers.

Cistera Networks Partners With Cepstral LLC, Leading Text-to-Speech Company

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST

DALLAS, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 20, 2006 -- Cistera Networks (OTCBB: CNWT), the leading provider of advanced IP phone application platforms and engines in the Enterprise VoIP Telephony environment, today announced a partnership with Cepstral LLC of Pittsburgh, PA for the integration of Cepstral's Enterprise Text-to-Speech Engines on the Cistera ConvergenceServer(tm) (CCS).

Signate Adds Text-to-Speech Option to Telephone Service Provider Solutions

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

San Francisco, Calif. - June 15, 2006 -- Signate, a leading provider of VoIP telephone solutions based on industry standard hardware and open source software, today announced the availability of Cepstral's Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine and voices integrated into its SigProvider and SigCarrier solutions for telephone service providers.

New Cepstral Voices Now Offered With TextAloud

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EST

CLEMMONS, NC (PRWEB) June 13, 2006 -- NextUp.com, developer of TextAloud software, today announced the availability of an engaging new Cepstral (R) U.S. female voice, 'Callie', as well as some fun new novelty voices like 'Shouty' and 'Whispery'. TextAloud lets users convert text into spoken audio for easy listening, study, and comprehension. Text can also be converted to audio files for easy playback on portables like the iPod (R), PocketPC (R), and a wide range of portable devices.