Name Pronunciation Software. We have released version 3 of the E-Speech name pronunciation software, which includes significant improvements to US geographical names, as well as to people's names. Our latest software also offers alternate pronunciations for many names that have more than one pronunciation.

We provide software or dictionaries that can be used in your speech recognition or text-to-speech systems, as well as in systems with live call-center agents. We also offer a web-based system that lets you enter any name and see a phonetic transcription and hear it spoken.

E-Speech offers the most accurate pronunciation software available today for the names of people, places, and businesses in the United States.

Spanish Name Synthesis. E-Speech has introduced a Latin-American Spanish synthesis system that speaks people's names with extremely high sound quality. The system converts orthography to phonemes and stress marks and, based on E-Speech's proprietary subword concatenation algorithms, generates speech from its sound inventory. This system illustrates the sound quality that our custom speech generation systems can offer you for domain-specific applications such as names, addresses, timetables, financial transactions.

Teaching reading on the web. E-Speech has developed a web-based prototype system that teaches people how to pronounce English words and names from spelling. Learners type in any word or name, and the system indicates whether the word follows regular letter-to-phoneme (pronunciation) rules and shows what pronunciation rules apply. Learners can also see other words and names that follow any given rule. The system is based on an adaptation of E-Speech's proprietary letter-to-phoneme rules, funded in part by a National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant.

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