Lernout & Hauspie Text-to-Speech (3 products)

Lernout & Hauspie have three TTS products. The functionality of the products is similar, however, they differ in hardware implementation and other details where described below.

• L&H tts2000/T: TTS for the Telephony and Telecommunications Market
• L&H tts2000/M: TTS for the Computer and Multimedia Market
• L&H tts3000/C: TTS for the Buisness and Consumer Electronics Market

• Description: Text to Speech (TTS) software based on parameterized segment concatenation (diphones, triphones and tetraphones) algorithms. Available for US English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish (Castilian), Italian and Korean. General features include:
  • The control of volume, speech rate and speech pitch.
  • The use of control sequences to customize TTS output (adding pauses, using phonetic input, etc.).
  • Switching between languages at run time.
  • A personal vocabulary editor is available for building exception dictionaries.
  • Readout modes: letter by letter, word by word or sentence by sentence.
  • Input formats: orthographic input, phonetic input, phonetic input with prosodic information.
• tts2000/T
  • Output formats: 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law PCM, 16 bit linear PCM.
  • Sampling Frequency: 8kHz
  • Single channel platform examples: SHARP SH7000, ARM6/ARM7, Intel i960, TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
  • Multi-channel platform examples: TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
• tts2000/M
  • Output formats: 8/16 bit wave format, 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law PCM, 16 bit linear PC.
  • Sampling Frequency: 8/10/11.025 kHz
  • Single processor platform examples: ARM6/ARM7, Intel 386/486/Pentium, Motorola 68040
  • Two processor platform examples: {Intel 386/486/Pentium or Motorola 68030} and {ADI ADSP21XX or Motorola 5600X or TI TMS320C25/20C5X}
• tts3000/C
  • Output formats: 8 bit mu-law PCM, 8 bit A-law PCM, 16 bit linear PCM.
  • Sampling Frequency: 10kHz
  • Single processor platform examples: SHARP SH7000, ARM6/ARM7, Intel i960, TI TMS320C31, AT&T DSP3210
  • Two processors platform examples: { SHARP SH7000 or ARM6/ARM7 or Intel 386EX or Motorola 683XX} and {ADI ADSP21XX or Motorola 5600X or TI TMS320C25/C5X or TI TSP50C10}
• See also: L&H Windows TTS SDK
• More Information: on the Lernout & Hauspie WWW pages: http://www.lhs.com/tts.html
• Price: Unknown
• Contact: Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products
  20 Mall Road, 4th Floor
  Burlington, MA 01803, USA
  Ph: +1-617-238-0960, Fax: +1-617-238-0986
  Email: sales@lhs.com
  WWW: http://www.lhs.com/

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