Sakrament launched Sakrament TTS Engine v2.5

Sakrament today announced the new release of its Sakrament TTS Engine, that delivers advanced natural synthesized speech output and introduces new female voices called Vika and Oksana.

Minsk, Belarus -- January 20, 2003 -- Sakrament company, the leading software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, today announced the new release of its Sakrament TTS Engine, that delivers advanced natural synthesized speech output and introduces new female voices called Vika and Oksana..    

Sakrament TTS Engine v2.5 introduces Vika and Oksana, Russian voices that sounds nearly to 'real Vika and Oksana, the persons voices from which new Sakrament TTS voice modules were built. Sakrament Vika and Oksana, created by Sakrament, demonstrate that new high quality female voices can be developed for companies that want to use a unique, branded voice in their speech services and applications.

New release of Sakrament TTS was designed to use advanced unit selection algorithms that enable Sakrament TTS to model not only the sound of the voice talents, but also the intonation of the speakers.

With new rate and volume controls of the synthesized speech, Sakrament TTS v2.5 offers flexibility in application development, resulting in more accurate and natural-sounding TTS output. In addition, Sakrament TTS offers modified dictionaries that are used to correct and update TTS pronunciations quickly, which result in the more accurate pronunciation.

Sakrament TTS v2.5 is compliant with Microsofts SAPI 5.0 and SAPI 5.1 standard. It runs on Windows 98, 2000,ME, NT and XP.

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