Natural Computer Vocalizing
from R&D Magazine
August, 1998 - page 65

Elan Informatique, Toulouse, France (+3 356-136-0787)
http://www.elan.fr/speech/ has released new versions of its text-to-speech
software engines Speech Engine and Speech Cube. Bith products incorporate
next-generation test-to-speech synthesizer which enables a computer with
multimedia capacity to read and text in a natural voice automatically in a
variety of languages, including English, French, German, and Spanish. The
synthesizer offers complete comtrol over pitch, inflection, reading speed,
volume, and pauses. It also adds new capabilities in orthographic-to-phonetic
transcription and prosody for all covered languages, a leading edge speech
synthesis technology.  

