Elan Sayso Gets the Part for Lucy's Voice; Elan Speech Gets Elix's Platform IVS Talking

TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Davi Interactive, an interactive 3D animation creation and production studio for multimedia applications, has chosen Elan Sayso TTS to speech-enable Lucy, one of their virtual hostesses. "Computers lack humanity. Our 3D animated actors are living interfaces who can listen and speak, so as to enable a more natural and intuitive means of communication than a keyboard and mouse." says Pascal Arbault, Managing Director of Davi Interactive. Davi Interactive's human actors can give advice, assistance, help or just entertain the end-users. They can be hosts or mascots to a trademark, but also presenters, salespeople, trainers, technicians or messengers. As a software integrator, Davi Interactive works with La Cantoche (real-time 3D agent animation Living Actor technology), among others, to offer turnkey solutions to clients who are looking for an original way to animate a website and improve their relationship with their visitors. Elan Speech Gets Elix's Platform IVS Talking TOULOUSE, FRANCE - Elix, a provider of multimedia contact center and interactive voice response systems designed to help organizations manage customer interactions, has chosen Elan technology to speech-enable their Interactive Voice Response development platform, Elix IVS. Elix IVS for Windows 2000 is a development platform designed to build, run and manage an interactive voice services infrastructure. Its environment allows supporting technologies like speech technologies (TTS and ASR), VoIP, conferencing and more. Integro Networks has already chosen the Elix IVS platform using Speech CUBE, Elan's multilingual TTS component for Telecom and Enterprise, for their Voice Communication Portal (VCP) solution. By combining Elan Speech with voice recognition, Elix can offer a complete vocal interface to enable companies to offer their clients a high quality automated service, 24/7. Elix IVS platform is commercialized worldwide via Elix's direct sales and a wide reseller network of over 250 VARs. Resellers use Elix IVS to design and develop a multitude of applications that use TTS and voice recognition technologies.