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ETI ELOQUENT TECHNOLOGY:
Home Page:
http://www.eloq.com/index.html
ETI Eloquence Description:
http://www.eloq.com/eti0elo.html
ETI Eloquence Underlying Technology:
http://www.eloq.com/SuePap.htm
ETI Eloquence More Information:
Tools and Technology.
Including a technical description of unlimited vocabilary in text -to- speech processing.
http://www.eloq.com/eti0info.html
Demonstration Instructions:
We highly recommend that you download the ETI sample wave files,
and request our full ETI Eloquence text -to- speech demo to evaluate speech quality.
Sample Waves, Demo Offer:
http://www.eloq.com/eti0elo.html#Demo Offer
To Request A Demo Disk please contact:
Ed Schulman, Director of Marketing
Eloquent Technology, Inc.,
2389 North Triphammer Rd,
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607/266-7025
Fax: 607/266-7030
E-mail Request For Demo at: ed@eloq.com
At this point in time ETI does not usually sell our products directly to end users. However, in order to test the end user market, I can make you the following offer:
For your information, I have included below, the standard letter describing Eloquence. Within the letter, an ETI Eloquence Demo disk is mentioned. Although this demo is usually only available to large volume OEM distributors, we would be happy to send you a copy.
If within 30 days, you decide that this demo meets your needs, send us $50. If not, just return the demo to us. In either case PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS.
If you would like a copy of the Demo let me know whether you are running under Win 3.1 or Win95 (16 or 32 bit versions). I will also need your US Mail address.
Ed Schulman
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ed@eloq.com
Our text-to-speech product, Eloquence, speaks ordinary English text with clear, highly-intelligible synthetic voices. It parses the text into sentences, phrases and words, then recites the utterance with natural intonation and stress patterns. Output comes through any Windows compatible sound board.
Eloquence offers eight standard voices and allows users to define new ones. Included in the standard set are two young adult males, two young adult females, a child, an older male with a deep, raspy voice, and an old male and female. Users can change the gender, head size, pitch baseline, roughness, breathiness, speed, and volume in order to modify a standard voice or to create a new one.
Although Eloquence produces natural sounding intonation automatically, the user can override these patterns by changing word emphasis, word tones, and pauses. Users can also control the sense of finality at the end of a sentence. Dynamic dictionaries allow users to define custom pronunciations.
Eloquence produces speech entirely with a set of linguistically-oriented rules rather than with the more common cancatenative approach involving prestored units These rules, based on over twenty years of research in speech synthesis, give Eloquence its' exceptional speech quality and intelligibility. As a result of a set of sophisticated tools and linguistic models underlying Eloquence, the system is unusually customizable and extensible.
Eloquence runs as a 32 bit application under Windows 95, Windows NT, and Windows 3.1 (with Win32s extensions.) A 16 bit version is also available. Beta versions for UNIX platforms (Sun, SGI, and RS-6000) are also available.
Eloquence is shipped with a Software Development Kit (SDK) for integrating the software into OEM applications. The SDK contains on-line documentation and three interfaces: one for C/C++ integration, one supporting DDE connections, and one for a Visual Basic interface.
The SDK for Windows based PCs sells for $995. The SDK for UNIX platforms sells for $1495. Both versions include one copy of Eloquence and come with a 30-day money back guarantee. OEM pricing for Eloquence is available upon request.
An Eloquence demo disk is available free of charge for qualified OEM distributors. The demo runs on a PC (486/33 or faster) under Windows 3.1, 95, or NT equipped with a sound board. (Request either the 16 or 32 bit version and include your mailing address).
Feed the demo any stored or typed text [.TXT] and chose any of the standard voices. Modify any of the voices with the complete set of user parameters; make "Bobby" sound excited and give a cold to poor "Grandma". Have Fun!
If you are interested in Eloquence, or have any further questions, just give me a call or send an e-mail note. Let me know your intended application and hardware platform.
Ed Schulman
Director of Marketing
ETI Eloquent Technology, Inc.
(607) 257-1537 or (607) 266-7025
ed@eloq.com