Cepstral News

Cepstral Launches VoicesForMac.com To Enable Your Mac To Speak In Fun, Distinctive Voices.

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST

Now Mac users can have their laptops or desktops speak to them in one of eight distinctive "real" voices - for an endless array of personal and professional communications. "Whispery," "Belle," "Dallas," "Lawrence" and others bring personality to your laptop or desk Mac. Tired of vanilla voices? Demo these fun personalities at VoicesForMac.com.

A Wonderfully APPropriate Partnership

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST

Ceptral's VoiceForge (www.VoiceForge.com) proven TTS translation technology enables Bizmosis to rapidly, cost-effectively, and constantly deliver breakthrough iPhone and iPad apps, including (left to right), iTranslate, Ringtone Creator, and NewsButler.

Leading Text-to-Speech (TTS) Vendor Cepstral in Strategic Deal with Virtual World Pioneer Anshe Chung Studios

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST

World's Largest Catalog of TTS Voices Now Speak for Virtual World Avatars

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Article: South Side firm develops program that reads text in your voice

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 01:00:00 EST

Article from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Cepstral's TTS engine has been successfully integrated with Aculab technology

Wed, 8 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST

Cepstral LLC, the largest privately-held text-to-speech (TTS) company in North America, today announced successful integration of their TTS engine with enabling technology from Aculab, a leading provider of media processing hardware and software.

Voxpilot Partners with Cepstral to Offer Affordable Quality Text-to-Speech Voices

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

Voxpilot Partners with Cepstral to Offer Affordable Quality Text-to-Speech Voices

World's Largest Catalog of English Text-to-Speech (TTS) Voices now an Online Service

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Pittsburgh, PA -- Cepstral LLC today announced that it has reached a milestone of 40 English Text-to-Speech voices and that the entire catalog is now generally available online as Software as a Service (SaaS) through its VoiceForge property. Developers can now access a simple API to convert any text or web page into platform-independent audio without the need for client software. VoiceForge is differentiated as the only service to offer 30 entertaining novelty voices in addition to 20 traditional "enterprise" voices - 50 in all.

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.