Sakrament company embeds its TTS Engine in a platform of 32 --bit microprocessor Toshiba TMPR3912; Opens the Way to use Sakrament TTS Engine in a wide range of electronic devices and PDAs.

Sakrament company embeds its TTS Engine in a platform of 32 --bit microprocessor Toshiba TMPR3912; Opens the Way to use Sakrament TTS Engine in a wide range of electronic devices and PDAs.

Sakrament company, the leading software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, today announced that embedded its TTS Engine in a platform of 32 --bit microprocessor Toshiba TMPR3912. It opens the Way to use Sakrament TTS Engine in a Wide Range of electronic devices and PDAs.

Sakrament TTS software comes with male and female voices that clearly pronounce any text and currently available for the Russian language. For example Sakrament TTS can read any text-based information. It can provide personalized program information for home entertainment systems, set-top cable boxes, hand-held computers and a voice for navigation systems; a hands-free interface for vehicle information.    

Software was written on ANSI C, except hardware support of addresses. It can be easily embedded in various types of microprocessor platforms. The size of the object module is 70 KB. Source data volume for speech processing (allophone database) with high sound playback quality is 800 KB. Allophone database was digitized at 16 bit with sampling frequency 11 kHz. Allophone database can be installed into RAM, ROM or to flash memory, giving users flexibility in storage requirements. The database can be compressed in 4 and 8 times using real-time ADCPM algorithms.

About Sakrament company
Sakrament company, the leading software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, was established in Minsk, Belarus, in 1994. Sakrament products, including Sakrament Text-to-Speech Engine (TTS) and Sakrament Speech Recognition Engine (ASR) provide the most natural communication solutions available for the Russian language. Sakrament technology allows to integrate speech solutions into existing voice processing platforms and develop a various types of speech enabled applications.
More information about the company can be found at www.sakrament-speech.com or
CONTACT: Sakrament company
Alexander Ostapenko, 375 17/284-0650
ales@sakrament.com

About microprocessor Toshiba TMPR3912

The TMPR3912 is a single chip, integrated, digital ASSP for PDA (Personal Digital Assistants). The TMPR3912 consists of PDA system support logic integrated with the TX39 processor core (by MIPS Technologies, Inc) designed by Toshiba.