18 November 2008

SVOX Debuts Small-Footprint Text-2-Speech System

SVOX has released  SVOX Pico, a small-footprint text-to-speech system that will run on an ARM9.

In its initial release, SVOX Pico supports British English and German; additional languages can be added as required. The SVOX Pico engine requires less than 400 KB ROM, with an additional 400 KB for each extra language and 500 KB for each extra voice. Such modest memory requirements allow creation of multilingual packages with a significantly smaller ROM footprint than was previously feasible.

As in all other SVOX TTS systems, SVOX Pico has an architecture in which the engine and the lingware are separated. This means that while the initial release of SVOX Pico was created for Symbian OS, porting into other embedded environments is straightforward.