Inventive Labs Corporation and Cepstral have announced that Cepstral's TTS software will be available on Voice Elements, which is a Dialogic (News - Alert)-based telephony development tool for all .NET languages, such as VB.NET and C#.

 

The addition of Cepstral's server-grade TTS engine and voices enables solution providers to easily add TTS for dynamic prompts and information delivery to users interfacing with telephone-based solutions built on Voice Elements, which is royalty-free and allows businesses to use their internal .NET skill set.

 

"By adding TTS to Voice Elements we round out our total-solution approach to telephony development. Cepstral's software offers .NET developers access to affordable and natural sounding TTS for their voice-based projects," said Ron Tanner, president of Inventive Labs.

 

Cepstral, a Text-to-Speech technology company, provides software and services for the spoken delivery of information in English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian with over 30 different voices. The company's natural sounding voices for server, desktop, and embedded applications. Also, VoiceForge, a SaaS (News - Alert) platform powered by Cepstral, is dedicated to online delivery of a wide variety of professional and novelty voices.

 

Inventive Labs is a provider of royalty-free telephony application solutions. The company recently released its new 'Voice Elements' application development toolkit designed for companies needing to provide telephony-based products or services.

 

"Inventive Labs' strategy for .NET telephony makes good sense. Telephony on .NET is underserved despite the platform's wealth of existing business applications and programming talent. With Voice Elements and Cepstral TTS, it's now easy to add phone features so any .NET application can potentially talk to users," said Cepstral CEO, Craig Campbell (News - Alert).

 

Recently, enterprise VoIP application provider Cistera Networks partnered with Cepstral to integrate the company's enterprise Text-to-Speech engines on the Cistera ConvergenceServer (CCS). With the partnership, Cepstral's Text-to-Speech (TTS) system will allow Cistera application engines to convert text to voice for better contact center quality, voice-enabled emergency notification and two-way radio presence as well as offer voice-enabled directory assistance.

 

Cepstral also recently announced that its “Allison” text-to-speech, Asterisk (News - Alert)-based interactive voice response (IVR) application is being offered by Digium. Created by Cepstral through its longstanding partnership with Digium (News - Alert), this application allows customers to use the telephone system voice of “Allison Smith,” to customize messages and mix information that cannot be pre-recorded with recorded prompts in the same user-friendly voice.