Eloquens (software) explained
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.
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.
See also
References
- Book: Balestri . Marcello . Lazzaretto . Stefano . Salza . Pier Luigi . Sandri . Stefano . 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1993) . The CSELT system for Italian text-to-speech synthesis . 22 September 1993 . 2091–2094 . 10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-468. 42744136 .
- Web site: Speech Technologies and Standards, DIT Seminars, Povo, Trento. Paolo. Baggia. 7 June 2006.
- 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
- Book: Nebbia . L. . Quazza . S. . Luigi Salza . P. . Proceedings 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications. IVTTA '98 (Cat. No.98TH8376) . A specialised speech synthesis technique for application to automatic reverse directory service . 1998 . 223–228 . 10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727725. 0-7803-5028-6 . 62411997 .
- Book: Gemello . R. . Albesano . D. . Mana . F. . Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'97) . Continuous speech recognition with neural networks and stationary-transitional acoustic units . 1997 . 4 . 2107–2111 . 10.1109/ICNN.1997.614230. 0-7803-4122-8 . 56858298 .
Bibliography
- Billi . Roberto . Canavesio . Franco . Ciaramella . Alberto . Nebbia . L. . Interactive voice technology at work: The CSELT experience . Speech Communication . November 1995 . 17 . 3–4 . 263–271 . 10.1016/0167-6393(95)00030-R.
- Book: Balestri . Marcello . Lazzaretto . Stefano . Salza . Pier Luigi . Sandri . Stefano . 3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 1993) . The CSELT system for Italian text-to-speech synthesis . 22 September 1993 . 2091–2094 . 10.21437/Eurospeech.1993-468. 42744136 .
- Book: Nebbia . L. . Quazza . S. . Luigi Salza . P. . Proceedings 1998 IEEE 4th Workshop Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications. IVTTA '98 (Cat. No.98TH8376) . A specialised speech synthesis technique for application to automatic reverse directory service . 1998 . 223–228 . 10.1109/IVTTA.1998.727725. 0-7803-5028-6 . 62411997 .
- Baggia . Paolo . Castagneri . Giuseppe . Danieli . Morena . Field trials of the Italian Arise train timetable system . Speech Communication . August 2000 . 31 . 4 . 355–367 . 10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00068-0.
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