LumenVox and Elan Speech Partner to Provide Multilingual Speech-Enabled Solutions
San Diego, CA and Toulouse, France (December 6, 2003)
LumenVox LLC, a developer of speech-enabled toolkits and applications and Elan Speech, the worldwide Text-to-Speech provider, announced today their partnership and marketing alliance to deliver high-end speech-enabled applications to enterprises worldwide.
LumenVox's Speech Platform is an intuitive GUI toolkit that allows companies to design, develop, and deploy almost any speech driven application. Acting as a natural extension of any current phone system, LumenVox's Platform can tie into CTI applications in order to access information for the caller or display "screen pops" containing the caller's data to a live representative. Supporting English and Spanish, the Platform enhances companies' communications and provides round-the-clock internal and external telephone support via speech.
With Elan Sayso Text-to-Speech, LumenVox enriches its current speech technology portfolio with a state of the art speech synthesis engine, which has never been so close to a real voice. "LumenVox is excited about the new partnership with Elan Speech," states Chris Lotspeich, Director of Marketing at LumenVox. "We are impressed with the wide selection of high quality TTS languages and voices that Elan Speech will bring to our portfolio."
Elan Sayso™ was developed by Elan Speech for high-end applications and services such as unified messaging, email reading, voice portals, e-marketing, public address, virtual agents and speakers, etc. Elan Sayso now favorably relays the human voice, providing access to information resulting in service optimization and cost reduction.
Already available in 6 languages (US English, Spanish, UK English, German, Italian and French), Elan Sayso golden tones have already been deployed in a number of highly visible services and applications, validating its high-end quality and reliability. Elan Sayso US English speaks with both male and female voices, for enhanced choice, interactivity and personalization of the service.
"Elan Speech is enthusiastic about deploying its Sayso golden tones in US English and Spanish with such a key partner and about contributing to achieve LumenVox's mission to provide powerful, flexible and useful speech products on a very dynamic and speech-addicted market" points out Antoine Kauffeisen, CEO of Elan Speech.
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About Elan Speech
As a leading world player in Text to Speech (TTS), Elan Speech focuses exclusively on the development and marketing of natural-language interfaces. Elan Speech brings organizations new ways of interacting with their clients, providing new opportunities to speech-enable the world through revenue-generating applications.
TTS speech-enables services and applications such as voice portals, voice emails, unified messaging, talking web, interactive games, educational software or navigation systems. In designing technology that fully exploits the richness of a speaker's intonations, the company has developed high quality TTS, Elan Sayso™. Elan's voices not only speak intelligibly but also contain all the emotion, nuances and variety of delivery that people use to convey meaning.
Since the beginning of Elan TTS in 1986, the company's multi-lingual TTS products have been deployed across a wide range of revenue-earning applications by hundreds of organizations worldwide. These include: Alcatel, Atos Origin, Avis, Bosch Blaupunkt, BVRP, CAE, Cegetel, Daimler Chrysler, Harman Becker, Intervoice, Magneti Marelli, Navtech, Oki, PSA, Siemens, Support Comm, Tecnomen, Temic, Unisys, Vivendi.
About LumenVox
LumenVox provides powerful, full-featured, and affordable speech recognition software together with a committed focus on excellent customer service. LumenVox recently released v8.0 of their entire product line, including their award-winning Speech Engine. New features include improved Voice Activity Detection, new support for Mexican and South American Spanish, Canadian French, and Australian/NZ and UK English, as well as updated SISR standard support. LumenVox can be reached at 877-977-0707 or at www.LumenVox.com