Babel's BrightSpeech to be Incorporated in Voxpilot VoiceXML Gateway Products

MONS, BELGIUM - Babel Technologies S.A. announced that Voxpilot has incorporated Babel's BrightSpeech text-to-speech (TTS) engine in Voxpilot's range of VoiceXML Gateway products, including SpeechSuite, the multi-language, fully VoiceXML 1.0 and 2.0 compliant premise-based platform. Under this agreement, Babel will also be able to offer Voxpilot's VoiceXML outsourced solutions. Voxpilot is a VoiceXML development portal offering tools and services for developers. These include an online development environment, a VoiceXML gateway, VSP hosting and local access telephone numbers for deployment in all major European markets. Voxpilot's multi-language SpeechSuite platform powers IVR services such as voice portals, directory assistance, mobile entertainment, as well as enabling access to Web content and call centre databases from any telephone. Voxpilot will offer U.S. English, French, German, Spanish and Swedish language versions of BrightSpeech on its SpeechSuite platform. Dr. Jon Alcantara, CEO of Voxpilot, said: "Babel's BrightSpeech was a natural choice for Voxpilot, as it offers simple, fast and inexpensive development and deployment of professional voice applications on our SpeechSuite platform. Speech applications help enterprises cut costs, achieve higher customer satisfaction, and open new revenue streams, making SpeechSuite and BrightSpeech an effective combination." Dr. Michaela Heigl, marketing manager of Voxpilot, added: "As well as offering a broad language set for our customers to choose from, BrightSpeech offers an exceptionally natural sounding voice quality, and we anticipate it will be highly popular." BrightSpeech offers application opportunities for software developers wishing to use synthetic speech as an information carrier for their products or services. Vincent Fontaine, CEO of Babel Technologies said: "Within the telecom industry, BrightSpeech is gaining a reputation as being one of the most flexible and versatile TTS engines available. Babel is pleased to count Voxpilot among its telecom partners; Voxpilot's Europe-wide offering combined with the near-human naturalness of BrightSpeech, is driving further demand for this engine across a broad range of telephony applications." BrightSpeech has been released in Dutch (B), French, German, Spanish, Swedish and U.S. English.