Ieper, Belgium and Burlington, MA — (press release excerpt) — Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) Speech Products NV has announced the availability of the L&H RealSpeak Compact Software Development Kit (SDK). The new SDK, which supports Linux and Windows CE based systems, makes high-quality, natural-sounding text-to-speech (TTS) technology available for a broad spectrum of electronic devices and vertical markets. Typical applications include mobile devices, such as PDA's, PDT's (Personal Digital Terminals), and handheld computers, and also numerous vehicle-based information solutions, such as in-vehicle telematics and car navigation systems, offering drivers improved comprehensibility and overall quality of these systems' synthetic voices.

The software converts several types of written text format, ranging from e-mail to currencies, dates, or web pages, into high-quality, natural-sounding speech. Special text pre-processors generate accurate pronunciation of e-mail addresses, URL's, and date and time formats. In addition, the L&H Application Programming Interface (API) enables application developers and system integrators to easily and rapidly build a user-friendly speech interface into their applications.

 
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