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| CommPower, in alliance with AT&T Labs Natural Voices‘ is pleased to offer CommPower’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) Broadcast System (CBS), the most advanced TTS capability on the market today. |
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| The CBS combined product line features... CBS E-mail Speak, CBS Text-to-Wav Converter, CBS Scheduler, and CBS Multi-Port... Please see the CBS Product Description & CBS User's Guide for more information! |
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CBS runs on a desktop or server PC (Windows 2K and XP) that would typically connect to the customer’s local area network. The primary function of CBS is to read ASCII text messages from pre-defined directories and convert the ASCII text messages into high quality digitized voice (WAV) files using AT&T’s Natural Voices™ TTS engine. The digitized (WAV) files are stored in their respective directories and subsequently scheduled for broadcast (output) to internal voice processing boards and/or transferred to external destinations (via the local area network). CBS assigns a separate server process to each of the available voice types (English, Spanish, German, French, Korean). The individual server processes allow CBS to successfully perform simultaneous ASCII-to-WAV file conversions. For each ASCII text message, a client process is initialized that communicates with the applicable (language, gender) server process. When conversion is complete the applicable client process is terminated. |
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CBS provides a fully interactive GUI for application monitoring, control, configuration, dictionary (word) pronunciation, new message creation, modification of existing messages, polling of pre-defined directories with automatic conversion from text to wav file, and automated scheduling capabilities. The CBS application also provides the capability to convert text files to .wav from within a script, program, or command line.|
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The dictionary (word) pronunciation provides a “what-you-see-is-what-you-HEAR” pronunciation of words. For example, the city of Ojai is defined via the GUI as “O hi” and Hueneme as “Why knee me”. No need to spend time defining intricate phoneme definitions.|
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| Please take a look at the CBS Product Description in Adobe PDF format. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The CBS User's Guide is available in Adobe PDF format. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The CBS Multi-Port User's Guide is available in Adobe PDF format. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Also, please take a look at the short CBS Overview (Powerpoint Presentation). You must have Microsoft Powerpoint already installed on your computer. The entire narration has been generated by the Text-to-Speech Engine! | |||||||||||||||||
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| Visit the CBS Detailed Overview (Powerpoint Presentation) for a narrated detailed description. (about 5,744K bytes in PSS format). | |||||||||||||||||
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| A customized version of CBS, named CommPower Text-to-Speech (CTS), is available for the National Weather Service (NWS) Console Replacement System (CRS). CTS has been integrated and extensively tested to ensure interoperability with all current CRS hardware and software configurations. It is compliant with established NWS Voice Improvement Processor (VIP) requirements, and it offers enhanced CRS operational and maintenance capabilities. | |||||||||||||||||
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Availability CBS and CTS are both available now directly from CommPower, and are now offered for purchase via the GSA Information Technology Schedule, Category 70. Offerings Our high-quality TTS application is being used in many different applications, from call centers and PBX's, to unified messaging services, voice portals (including IVR), customer relationship management (CRM) packages, desktop applications, telematics, and more. CommPower delivers the CBS/CTS products as: |
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| Please contact us for additional information. We can build a custom TTS solution for your needs! Chuck Purcell TTS Project Manager 805-389-7414 x122 (United States) cjpurcell@commpower.com |
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