Sakrament Launched Sakrament TTS Engine v2.5

MINSK, BELARUS - Sakrament company, a software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, announced the new release of its Sakrament TTS Engine, that delivers synthesized speech output and introduces new female voices called Vika and Oksana. Sakrament Vika and Oksana demonstrate that new female voices can be developed for companies that want to use a unique, branded voice in their speech services and applications. The new release of Sakrament TTS was designed to use advanced unit selection algorithms that enable Sakrament TTS to model not only the sound of the voice talents, but also the intonation of the speakers. With new rate and volume controls of the synthesized speech, Sakrament TTS v2.5 offers flexibility in application development, resulting in more accurate and natural-sounding TTS output. In addition, Sakrament TTS offers modified dictionaries that are used to correct and update TTS pronunciations, which result in the more accurate pronunciation. Sakrament TTS v2.5 is compliant with Microsoft's SAPI 5.0 and SAPI 5.1 standard. It runs on Windows 98, 2000,ME, NT and XP.