We’re delighted to announce that our high-quality text-to-speech (TTS) voice portfolio now also includes Elina, our brand new Finnish voice persona. Elina is ready to turn any kind of Finnish text into lifelike synthetic speech that is friendly, clear and... read more
The rSpeak TTS engine team (who is part of HOYA SPEECH) have been busy introducing a number of exciting new updates and features over the past few months. Here’s a summary of the major updates: New languages added: Italian, Norwegian Bokmål New voices released: Gina,... read more
rSpeak Technologies – a Hoya Speech Company – proudly announces that it has once again topped the Voice Information Associates’ Text-to-Speech Accuracy Testing charts for 2018. In fact, long-time speech industry observer has recognised two Hoya Speech text to speech... read more
In a recent article, the Economist examined how “voice technology is transforming computing.” rSpeak TTS voices are blazing a trail with their expressive high quality and market-leading accuracy. But the rSpeak TTS team are also championing ground-breaking... read more
rSpeak Technologies is delighted to announce that the rSpeak Text-to-Speech repertoire now includes Italian. Meet the new addition to a world class family of text to speech voices: Gina, the new Italian female rSpeak TTS voice has arrived! Gina is now available to... read more
Consumer demographics have never been as varied as they are today. Native speakers from many countries travel around the globe for work, tourism or to visit their families and friends. It is now quite normal to make most of our customer journeys online, rather than in... read more
At the beginning of 2017, wearables stole the show at CES, the world’s most influential, state of the art technology event – together with connected homes and the latest from the Internet of Things. Hands up if you use a device from this growing family of... read more
In the physical world, accessibility is a significant factor in designing and assessing how efficiently mobility systems serve populations. A parallel to this principle also exists in the cyber-world, where accessibility-related factors are indicative of how effective... read more
We’re pleased to announce that the rSpeak Technologies development team has rolled out an updated version of the rSpeak SDK/Engine, supporting the latest version of SAPI and providing some exciting new features with rSpeak’s state of the art TTS voices. The SAPI... read more
In our exploration of rSpeak Technologies text-to-speech software, we’ve looked at how rSpeak text-to-speech voices are created. In this post, another look under the hood to learn about the workings of the speech engine leads us to the discovery of the fact that one... read more
rSpeak Technologies is pleased to announce the latest member of its world class family of high quality text-to-speech voices: introducing Pilar, the new female rSpeak TTS voice for the Spanish language. Pilar is the new native Castilian Spanish TTS speaker to feature... read more
The big day we’ve so eagerly been waiting for has arrived: it’s CES® opening day! The rSpeak Technologies team is excited to take part in what promises to be the largest, most diverse event experience in the show’s 50-year history. We’re looking forward to... read more
This first week of the New Year 2017, we’d like to extend our very best wishes and share our excitement as we count down the hours leading up to the 50th CES® conference – opening in Las Vegas on January 5th, 2017. As we announced at the end of last year, we’ll... read more
rSpeak Technologies, speech software industry leaders, proudly announces the company will be taking part in CES® 2017, leveraging this exciting global gathering to showcase rSpeak, the high-quality text to speech software recently recognized by long-time speech... read more
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.― Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries This quote is on point on many levels, including today’s business world: experience – whether awesome,... read more
Over the past years, we’ve seen amazing breakthroughs in technology and impressive progress in voice synthesis. Synthetic speech has come an extremely long way since the early, robotic days. Today, the leading text-to-speech engines feature human-sounding tone and... read more
rSpeak Technologies proudly presents a new addition to a world class family of text-to-speech (TTS) voices: Mark, an American English male voice. Mark is now part of the powerful rSpeak speech engine, whose American English female voice Sophie was recently recognized... read more
“When people talk about “the next big thing,” they’re never thinking big enough.” —Daniel Burrus, Business Strategist, Global Futurist and author (See complete article). The author of this article states that this is not due to an inability to imagine where things are... read more
rSpeak Technologies is proud to announce that rSpeak’s American English female voice Sophie has been recognised by long-time speech industry observer ASR News as the most accurate text-to-speech voice available on the market. In their freshly released, 2016... read more
Three new text-to-speech voices are set to join the rSpeak Technologies family, for software development, cloud-based services, and server-based applications. The latest additions to the rSpeak voices lineup include Sophie (US English, female), Alice (British English,... read more
