Text to Speech (TTS) technology provides intelligent and natural sounding voice communications.
In a bid to make TTS sound even more natural, solutions that address all possible language barriers are constantly being created and perfected. Loquendo's answer to situations when more than one language is used within the same phrase is mixed language support, which leverages the phonetic mapping algorithm.
Using mixed language support it is possible to have a single phrase that includes several different languages, communicated effectively. An example of this is foreign names and locations.
Without mixed language support, it becomes difficult to understand the language being used when the main language attempts to pronounce words in another language. This is because of the natural accent tied to the native tongue of the speaker. Just as they do in actual person to person communications, pronunciation of these words comes off as not only funny sounding but also in some cases entirely unintelligible.
With mixed language support from Loquendo it is also possible to use more than one language in a phrase without having to use separate synthetic voices.
An example of how this would be used is having to pronounce a name in Italian within an American message. In this situation, Loquendo TTS Guesser software can be utilized as a method to go in and find out what other language is being used and then with phonetic mapping, help to pronounce it effectively.
Combining these capabilities along with emotion and expressiveness helps make speech technology a sure winner in any implementation.
For demonstration of these services and to learn more visit: www.loquendo.com
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