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New generation of IVONA Text-To-Speech voices

State-of-the-Art

Text-To-Speech voices are intended to read texts naturally in a human-sounding way. Unfortunately, in spite of the many improvements TTS technology has made over the past few years, Text-To-Speech voices still have an artificial/synthetic sound, as the lack of expressiveness makes them less appealing. This normally makes listening to a text longer than a short sentence read aloud by a TTS voice quite difficult.

A new age for Text-To-Speech

In 2009 we developed a new voices production technique for IVONA Text-To-Speech. The aim of this technique was to mimic the voice-talents' articulacy when sounding out words, sentences, paragraphs or even whole stories and books. Our goal was to be able to create Text-To-Speech voices that sounded exactly like the voice-talents who had lent their voices to the production of TTS, preserving their full expressiveness and all their individual aspects.

New IVONA voices

We are proud to present our first two voices created using the innovation mentioned above. Both voices speak Standard British English (Received Pronunciation accent). We've named them IVONA Amy and IVONA Brian.

Below you can listen to a few samples of utterances:

Original voice talent recordings
Voice talent Amy Voice talent Brian
Voice talent Kendra Voice talent Joey
IVONA TTS voice recordings:
IVONA voice Amy IVONA voice Brian
IVONA voice Kendrabeta IVONA voice Joeybeta
Below you can listen to „Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll and „Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Both audiobooks were created using IVONA voices.
IVONA Amy - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
IVONA Amy - Pride and Prejudice
IVONA Brian - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
IVONA Brian - Pride and Prejudice
IVONA Kendrabeta - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
IVONA Kendrabeta - Pride and Prejudice
IVONA Joeybeta - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
IVONA Joeybeta - Pride and Prejudice

The voices above were created in partnership with Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), UK. Steve Taylor, Head of Innovation at RNIB says, "IVO Software has delivered amazing quality and innovation in an area that we are particularly keen to support. We are proud to have met the team at Ivo who have worked extremely hard and thoroughly - their focus is on quality and this shows in every element of our partnership".

Create a customized voice with IVONA Text-To-Speech

Advantages of a customized voice:

  • Own voice matched to your own brand,
  • Dedicated to your needs,
  • Recognized as the voice of your company.

IVONA offers a wide range of voices, but as an additional option you can order customized voices. Your voice will be created with the IVONA Rapid Voice Development technique. This semi-automatic process uses artificial intelligence algorithms. AI algorithms and their ability to learn allow us to create voice-talent-like voices with computer precision. The additional advantage of RVD is that the process of building a new voice is fast and semiautomatic. IVONA Text-To-Speech takes advantage of many other technological innovations that make it a leading system in the TTS industry. Science 2006 IVONA has maintained a leading position in the prestigious annual scientific event Blizzard Challenge (comparison of Text-To-Speech systems).

Diagram technologii RVD

Advantages of voices creation with IVONA Rapid Voice Development

  • Rapid creation (voice ready in two months),
  • Voice speaks precisely like the voice-talent,
  • Voice speaks with exactly the style you need,
  • Creation is cost-effective.

IVONA Text-To-Speech voices can be found in the following products:

IVONA Reader - complete text reading solution for PCs, allows to listen to documents, webpages, books, RSS feeds, and much, much more.
IVONA Voices - popular (starting at $35) voices for Windows users, SAPI compliant, read various texts, cooperate with Text Readers, Screen Readers and other SAPI-compatible applications, can be used by people with sight disabilities.
IVONA WebReader - the fastest way to make any website talk, it's easy to use, allows delivering information clearly, attractively and accessible for all.
IVONA Recordings - instant voice recordings, 24h per day, allows to enter any text and download voice-talent recordings in seconds.
IVONA Server (Multimedia) - IVONA technology designed for mass speech recordings creation, can also be used for fast and automatic speech recordings.
IVONA Embedded - voices ready to speak from within any applications or devices, designed to cooperate with many hardware and software platforms, i.e. GPS devices, speaking dictionaries, etc.
IVONA Telecom - Text-To-Speech engine designed for Telecommunications, i.e. IVR systems. Compatible with all standards, including MRCP, SSML, and more.