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December 17, 2008

Talk to Your Windows-Based Media Center with Speaky


Talking to your technology is not just seen in the movies anymore, advancements made in speech solutions has made it possible for users to control, navigate and utilize devices using their voice.
 
Speaky Media Center 2009 from Mediavoice with Loquendo’s (News - Alert) TTS interface is making it possible for users to expand the use of their PC's with their voice. Users press a “Speaky key” on the remote control unit that comes with the software and start giving your PC commands for the system to perform.



 
Fabrizio Giacomelli, CEO of Mediavoice said, "We are entering a new era for the digital interface: the speech-enabled personal assistant. With this new solution, speech technologies, following their widespread diffusion in the telephony sector, are becoming real mass market technologies for the multimedia PC sector as well. These new speech-intelligent solutions will help us to overcome the digital divide, making the digital world accessible for all."
 
Users can speak commands like: "Play film", "Change to Channel 1" or "Please record Desperate Housewives" to control devices like their DVD player, radio and video recorder or can ask to hear weather, horoscopes, email and more using additional Mediavoice services.
 
"With this innovative solution, Speaky consolidates Loquendo's presence in the exciting mass consumer market," says Alessandro Martino, Loquendo's VP of Sales for Italy. "By using your voice, Speaky lets you access all your music, films, photos, etc. – and gives you full voice-control over your TV viewing. Customers have been impressed by how easy it is to find content in just a few seconds - which would be virtually impossible with a traditional remote control."
 
Speaky is available online at www.mediavoice.it and is currently available in Italian with other European languages to be made available soon.
 
Loquendo recently announced the latest version of its ASR solution. The new version 7.7 includes improves delivery and accuracy of speech.
 
Earlier this year, the company also announced the release of version 7.5 of their TTS solution. The latest release includes a revamped look and feel, improved prompt development, new features for Loquendo TTS Director and support for Red Hat (News - Alert) (News - Alert) Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1.
 
 
For more, be sure to check out the Speech Recognition and Text to Speech channel on TMCnet.

Jessica Kostek is a channel editor for TMCnet, covering VoIP, CRM, call center and wireless technologies. To read more of Jessica’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jessica Kostek




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