Eloquens (software)
Eloquens™ is a text-to-speech software, whose first version was released in 1993 by CSELT. It was the first commercial speech synthesis software able to speak Italian.
Developer(s) | CSELT |
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Initial release | 1993 |
Operating system | Windows |
Available in | Italian |
Type | Text to speech |
License | Proprietary Freeware |
Description
It was the first commercial product of the research center CSELT in the field of voice technology. It was built with diphone-technology aimed to reach a high computational efficiency.[1] As a result, the produced voice is still "robotic", but more natural than the previous generation voice implemented in MUSA[2] by CSELT itself. In the past, ELOQUENS was applied to automatically read timetables in the Italian train stations[3] and some telephone services provided by Telecom Italia, e.g. the automated address book service.[4]
In 1997 Eloquens was also used as a building block (synthezer module) in dialogue systems.[5]
Nowadays, it is released as freeware: it is nowadays typically used in spoken comments in many YouTube videos.
References
- Balestri, Marcello; Lazzaretto, Stefano; Salza, Pier Luigi; Sandri, Stefano (22 September 1993). "The CSELT system for Italian text-to-speech synthesis": 2091–2094. doi:10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-468.
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(help) - Baggia, Paolo (7 June 2006). "Speech Technologies and Standards, DIT Seminars, Povo, Trento" (PDF).
- 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing: April 21-24, 1997, Munich, Germany. (1997). United States: IEEE Computer Society Press: p. 1147
- Nebbia, L.; Quazza, S.; Luigi Salza, P. (1998). "A specialised speech synthesis technique for application to automatic reverse directory service": 223–228. doi:10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727725.
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(help) - Gemello, R.; Albesano, D.; Mana, F. (1997). "Continuous speech recognition with neural networks and stationary-transitional acoustic units". 4: 2107–2111. doi:10.1109/ICNN.1997.614230.
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Bibliography
- Billi, Roberto; Canavesio, Franco; Ciaramella, Alberto; Nebbia, L. (November 1995). "Interactive voice technology at work: The CSELT experience". Speech Communication. 17 (3–4): 263–271. doi:10.1016/0167-6393(95)00030-R.
- Balestri, Marcello; Lazzaretto, Stefano; Salza, Pier Luigi; Sandri, Stefano (22 September 1993). "The CSELT system for Italian text-to-speech synthesis": 2091–2094. doi:10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-468.
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(help) - Nebbia, L.; Quazza, S.; Luigi Salza, P. (1998). "A specialised speech synthesis technique for application to automatic reverse directory service": 223–228. doi:10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727725.
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(help) - Baggia, Paolo; Castagneri, Giuseppe; Danieli, Morena (August 2000). "Field trials of the Italian Arise train timetable system". Speech Communication. 31 (4): 355–367. doi:10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00068-0.