rvoice studio and activeprompts.
Peter Rutten, David T. Talkin · 2004
ActivePrompts are a new technology from Rhetorical, designed to offer a quicker and cheaper alternative to using voice talents and recording studios for the creation of an application-specific prompt library. Most speech user interfaces optimize the quality of their speech output by using pre-recorded prompts. In these applications, TTS is often considered to be a fall-back technology to generate speech for the variable content of messages. Although pre-recorded prompts optimize the quality of the static part of messages, they are expensive to create, depend on the availability of a speaker and recording studio, and can be difficult to combine with TTS. As an alternative to pre-recorded prompts, Rhetorical Systems has developed the technology to create prompts by using the rVoice TTS engine. This technology exploits the