Speech technologies in transport
September 2016
Company Overview
✓ Established in 1998
✓ Wide Range of Mobile Products and Services
✓ Diversified Distribution Channels
✓ Experienced and Highly Motivated Team
✓ Based in Barcelona, Spain
What we do
Services:
• Distribution of Vocalizer Expressive and Vocon in Europe.
• App development Consulting
• Tailored software development.
Products:
• Mobile Apps (eg. Vocalizer and Eloquence for Android).
• Accessibility products for various Mobile platforms.
• Built-in Accessibility for OEMs (eg. partnering with Microsoft).
Why Partner with Code Factory
• 10+ Years Experienced Development Team
• In-House Development
• In-depth Knowledge of the Nuance technology.
• We provide innovative solutions that help people in
every day situations.
• Our customer oriented team is responsive, dynamic
and flexible.
Nuance Vocalizer Technology
Unit-Selection Schema
– Front-End
– Text and linguistic processing
– Language data (lexica)
– Text processing rules and
dictionaries
Front-End
Linguistic Processing
Text
Preprocessor
Linguistic
Preprocessor
– Back-End
– Audio synthesis based on recorded
material (units)
– Voice data
Back-End
Signal Generation
Unit Selection
Synthesizer
Input Text
Speech
Language data
Voice data
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Vocalizer Expressive Heritage
Built on huge experience in TTS systems
Vocalizer
Expressive
2001
2012
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Express Yourself with Vocalizer Expressive
Vocalizer Expressive is:
Human
-like
Smooth
Smart
Expressive
Naturallysounding
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Expressivity
What makes Vocalizer expressive?
CORRECT
FLUENT
LIVELY
NATURAL
Pronunciation accuracy
– Pronounce words in a correct way
Speaking style
– Set correct breaks for longer sentences
Emphasis
– Put emphasis where it naturally
belongs
Paralinguistic phenomena
– Gilded speech databases containing
laughs, hesitations, and others
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Vocalizer Expressive
Most important product features


– Superior output quality
– Improved audio quality by new audio
codec in Vocalizer Expressive 2.0
– Improved smoothness by new signal
processing algorithms
– Natural prosody by syntactical analysis

– Allow for pronunciation consistency
between speech input and output

– Embedded SSML support

– Connected TTS
– Improved multi-lingual approach
– More accurate language identification
– High quality acoustic extensions
– Global cross-lingual mappings
– Common Linguistic Component (CLC)
shared with Nuance VoCon
– Use W3C conform solution for more
generic applications
– TTS getting smarter every day
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Vocon – speech recognition
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Voice Interaction
Preferred Way to Provide and Receive Information
Safe
Listen, not read
Productive
Use time better
Simple
Just say what you want, no buttons needed
Accessible
UI for visually impaired
Personalized
Underscore product uniqueness with
custom voice
Expressive
Voice that has personality
and understands meaning
Fun
Natural
Give voice to
characters and devices
100% human interaction with NLU
High Quality
High Recognition Accuracy
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TTS Use-Cases
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Deployments in the transportation sector
All public announcements on board Italian National Railway trains
&
All public announcements inside train stations
All public announcements on board
German National Railway trains –made
with a SPECIAL CUSTOM voice!
&
Deployments in the transportation sector
Nurnberg
ATAP Pordenone
SAF Udine
APT Gorizia
APTV Verona
ATM Milano
Language Portfolio
Languages Available with Vocalizer Expressive by July 2016
Arabic
Argentinean Spanish
Australian English
Basque
Belgian Dutch
Brazilian Portuguese
British English
Bulgarian
Canadian French
Cantonese
Catalan
Colombian Spanish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indian English
Indonesian
Irish English
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Mexican Spanish
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
South African English
Scottish English
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Taiwanese Mandarin
Thai
Turkish
US English
Valencian
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Voice Portfolio
Voices Available with Vocalizer Expressive by July 2016
Language
Female
Male
Language
Female
Male
Language
Female
Male
Arabic
Laila X
Maged, Tarik X
Finnish
Satu
Onni X
Norwegian
Nora
Henrik X
Argent. Spanish
--
Diego X
French
Audrey-ML, Aurelie
Thomas
Polish
Ewa, Zosia X
Krzysztof X
Austral. English
Karen
Lee
Galician
Carmela X
--
Portuguese
Catarina, Joana
Joaquim X
Basque
Miren X
--
German
--
--
Markus,
Yannick
Ioana X
Ellen
Anna-ML, Petra-ML
X
Romanian
Belgian Dutch
Nikos X
Yuri
Felipe X
Melina
Katya-ML, Milena
Luciana
Greek
Russian
Brazil. Portuguese
Hindi
Lekha
Neel
Scottish English
Fiona
--
Hebrew
Carmit
--
Slovak
Laura
--
Hungarian
Mariska
--
S. African English
Tessa
--
Indian English
Veena
Rishi
Spanish
Marisol-ML, Mónica-ML
Jorge X
Indonesian
Damayanti
--
Swedish
Alva, Klara
Oskar
British English
Kate X,
Serena
Daniel, Oliver
Bulgarian
Daria
--
Canadian French
Amelie,
Chantal
Nicolas
Cantonese
Sin-Ji
--
Irish English
Moira
--
Taiwan. Mandarin
Mei-Jia
--
Catalan
Montserrat X
Jordi X
Italian
Luca X
Thai
Kanya
--
Colom. Spanish
Soledad X
Carlos X
Alice-ML, FedericaML X, Paola X
Turkish
Yelda
Cem-ML
Japanese
Ayane, Mizuki,
Kyoko, Sakura
Otoya X,
Daisuke, Ichiro
US English
Allison X, Ava-ML X,
Samantha, Susan X,
Zoe
Tom
Valencian
Empar
--
Croatian
Lana
--
Czech
Iveta, Zuzana
--
Korean
Sora, Yuna
--
Danish
Sara
Magnus X
Mandarin
Li-Li,Tian-Tian
Bin-Bin
Dutch
Claire-ML
Xander
Mexican Spanish
Angelica, Paulina
Juan
ML: multilingual voice, X: gilded speech DB available
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Vocalizer Roadmap
Overview
2015
Q4
2016
Vocalizer Expressive 2.0.1:
Improved Japanese
More efficient memory access
Vocalizer Expressive 2.1:
New language Chilean Spanish
New language Croatian
New Indian languages
English ML for Amelie FRC voice
English ML for Paulina SPM voice
Improved Taiwanese Mandarin
Improved dictionary handling
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
2017
Q1
Vocalizer Expressive 2.2:
Improved Cantonese
Improved Japanese
English ML for Maged ARW voice
Vocalizer Expressive 3.0:
New language Malay
Mandarin Embedded High
Next quality improvement step
New CLC setup
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