NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech Product Selected by VoiceShot for Notification Services

FREMONT, CA - NeoSpeech, a provider of speech technologies for hand-held, desktop and network/server applications, announced that VoiceShot, LLC has selected NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech product, VoiceText, to power its interactive voice alert and notification services for Web sites. VoiceShot is a provider of Web-based interactive outbound and inbound call services for SOHO, corporate, political and non-profit communities. Its selection of VoiceText enables VoiceShot to provide natural sounding, automated alerts and notifications that are immediately delivered, and incorporate vital and time sensitive information for its customers in the service industry. "As a service provider, we realized that voice communication has great advantages over other types of communication," said Mark Schwartz, head of technology for VoiceShot. "By incorporating NeoSpeech's technology into our offering, our customers are able to send life-like automated appointment reminders and notifications for everything from doctor appointments to power outages. The voice quality on these announcements is unparalleled." VoiceShot's Outbound and Developer services enable companies to easily send alerts, notifications, reminders and informational phone calls from their own applications and Web sites. Text is passed from the customer's application to VoiceShot, and is then read to the call recipient with Text-to-Speech over the telephone. NeoSpeech's VoiceText product enables the customer to control the gender, pitch, speed and volume of the voice used. "We are pleased VoiceShot selected NeoSpeech's VoiceText product to power automated interactive announcements for its customers," said Lin Chase, CEO of NeoSpeech. "This technology provides the reliability and quality critical to the service industry, ensuring VoiceShot's customers have the best possible user experience." According to NeoSpeech, its VoiceText offers quality voices across all different footprints and across all major platforms. VoiceText generates natural-sounding voices from text input and offers the same Text-to-Speech solution across hand-held, desktop, laptop and network/server applications, while supporting a broad range of industry standard operating systems. Available in several languages, VoiceText can process any size or type of text, from reading test questions to complete news stories to personal e-mail, delivering the highest level of accuracy and quality.