Fonix
provides a variety of speech-based technologies to help businesses and
consumers communicate better and easier. Founded in 1994, and with
offices around the world, Fonix
specializes in text-to-speech
development and offers a vast array of award-winning products and technologies
for a variety of platforms and industries. Their technology is
particularly helpful to folks who have trouble with their vision or are
otherwise disabled.
Originally, they offered a web-based service
called SpeakThis!
that brought web pages to life by reading the page's
text to your visitors. It was quite cool.
While the service is no longer available, Fonix
is a very interesting company to keep an eye on. DECtalk technology
has replaced their prior SpeakThis! service, and it can be integrated
with many different hardware platforms and operating systems.
DECtalk is available in many different languages including U.S. and
U.K. English, Spanish, French and German. It can use any of nine different
voices. It is capable of providing the user with a high-level of speech
quality and accuracy, and it can pronounce a variety of tricky words, phrases,
proper names and even ethnic-specific ones.
To learn more about Fonix
and DECtalk, click here
for more information.
Fonix Speech
