voxygen - leading tts innovation - 211212 1.2

1. Leading Text To Speech
innovation…
Janvier 2013 (1.2)
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2. SUMMARY
 Technology and benefits
 Markets
 Major references
 Products and services
 Technical focus
 Pricing policy
 VOXYGEN company
 Contacts
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3. Technology and
benefits…
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4. WE ARE LEADING TTS INNOVATION…
Welcome to the experiment.
Or choosing to belong through fostership,
and is due to be going soon to Iran,
parents are fighting over Beanie Babies.
Can there be some mistake ?
Maxine sees J.M,
then we paddled over here to hear the news.
« Welcome to BBC « Welcome, welcome
news » , welcome »
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5. Guy
speaking loud
Guy
speaking softly
Melodine
singing softly
TO CREATE NATURAL EXPRESSIVE VOICES !
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6. WE DELIVER EXPRESSIVE SPEECH…
TO IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE !
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7. MAIN BENEFITS
Improve user Speech is our primary means of natural communication.
experience Customer will benefit from a personalized acces to the
information.
Multipurpose and Branding, commercial, social networking, serious games… we
multicanal deliver vocal services on every customer’s device.
Respond to Vocal services allow you to interact with informations even if you
accessibiility needs can’t read or touch any keyboard.
Take adventage on Involve innovation, and do what competitors don’t to lead your
competitors market.
Available and Voice messages production and real-time text to speech solutions
reactive are available 24 hours a day. Specific requests are processed in
less than 4 hours.
Easy to deploy Standard interfaces and adapted monitoring tools allow to easily
and use integrate our solutions in your services.
Save time Save time of your employees and create new revenue with added
and make money value vocal services.

8. Markets…
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9. EACH BUSINESS NEEDS SPECIFIC SOLUTIONS
 Telephone Services : IVRs and PBX, a well-established segment where Text To Speech
is needed for real-time audio. The latest years of big advances in speech technology
research with high-quality voices, and VOXYGEN's specific knowledge in creation of
expressive voices combined with the performance of our online Studio, has allowed our
technology to be deployed not only for real-time but also by replacing speaker-recordings
with audio files generated with this Studio.
 Media and Web : media design and web development has relied on visual interfaces to
communicate. With TTS, new doors are now opened to add an auditive dimension to
services and rend interfaces more human. Our expressive voices in particular allows the
creation of new usages such as v-cards or other funny applications, particularly desired with
the appearance of social networks.
 Games and Education : e-learning, serious and funny games still uses speech
recordings delivered by studios, having not until now found the TTS solutions corresponding
to their needs in terms of expressive voices allowing a perfect immersion into the application.
VOXYGEN challenges this sector with its highly expressive voices and is in the anticipation
of the construction of specific voices needed.
 Health and Accessibility : applications for healthcare and disabled or elder people is
an important growth lever for VOXYGEN, supplying a technology allowing to verbalize
solutions otherwise inaccessible for this public, which crucially needs an auditive value to
gain autonomy and have access to general or vital information.
 Electronics and Devices : home automation systems, smartphones, tablets, GPS,
pocket translators, set-top-boxes… numerous applications will be able to benefit of
VOXYGEN's expressive voices to create innovative interfaces allowing to ease the use and
thus expand the public. This is why VOXYGEN will approach constructors of such devices in
order to integrate audio into the early conception.
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10. Major references…
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11. THEY TRUST VOXYGEN
SNCF : VOXYGEN created the digital expressive voice of Simone Herault, used by SNCF in
vocal services for more than 30 years. The TTS solution is deployed in several environments :
the 3658, the 3635, in the internal information system. New projects are on their way like ticket
distributors and websites as well as new interfaces addressing disabled or elderly people.
EDF & SFR : a branded high-level expressive voice Nathalie Spitzer made by VOXYGEN. It’s
already sollicited for their telephone services and TV campaigns. EDF uses our Speech Studio
to create audio files instantly and autonomously. A project is coming up for next year for the
deployment of real-time speech on their telephone services.
METEO FRANCE : customization of VOXYGEN’s catalog voices for a perfect vocalization of
weather reports. Development of lexicons and preprocessing modules allowing transforming
written expressions into well-formed sentences. The voices are deployed on their telephone
services verbalizing weather reports.
PAGES JAUNES : verbalisation of geolocalisation in the mobile version of their research
interface. 23 million apps have been downloaded.
ORANGE : various services and applications such as Orange Labs Nursery, Orange
Accessibility (Mobile Phones for blind people), Orange Business Services (big accounts vocal
services), Orange Customers Services. In Arabic and African countries, our solutions are
deployed on several services in Mobinil (Egypt), Orange Tunisia (Tunisia), and Méditel
(Morocco), Orange Nigeria, Orange Cameroun, Orange Dominican Republic, etc.
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12. Products and
services…
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13. A COMPLETE OFFER TO MEET YOUR NEEDS
Custom services : do you need Multipurpose voices : a complete
optimized services ? An exclusive voice ? catalogue of expressive voices to cover all
We can produce the tailor-made solution to kinds of services in several languages.
achieve your goals !
Training and support : Funny voices : a large
we train your team to take choice of typical expressive
advantage of our tools voices (regional, cartoon like,
efficiency and support your celebrity…) to create original
staff throughout your project. and innovative services.
Real-time text to speech : Vocal messages production :
VOXYGEN’s Expressive Speech Server, VOXYGEN’s Expressive Speech
Speech Cloud and Speech Embedded Delivery and Speech Studio are
deliver high quality TTS dynamically, fully designed to easily create and use
integrated into your environment. expressive speech in your vocal
services.
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14. MULTIPURPOSE EXPRESSIVE VOICES ®
Multipurpose expressive voices Language Gender
☐ Agnes (mature, quiet), Eva (mature, active), Electra (soft, sexy).
☐ Philippe (mature, quiet), Loïc (mature, natural), Damien (actif, dynamic),
Jeanjean (canadian accent), John (american accent), Guy (multi-expressive),
Zozo (Ivoirian accent).
☐ Elizabeth (mature, quiet), Bibi (dynamic), Bronwen (mature, soft).
☐ Paul (mature, soft).
☐ Marta (mature, natural).
☐ Adel (mature, natural).
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15. FUNNY EXPRESSIVE VOICES ®
Funny expressive voices Language Gender
☐ Mélodine (singing, jazzy), Sorcière (witch, old).
☐ Bicool (young, cool), Chut (shy, whisper), Darkvadoor (starwars), Papi
(old), Ramboo (warlike), Sidoo (cartoon like), Yeti (monster, scary).
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16. VOCAL MESSAGES PRODUCTION
Vocal messages production Language Voice Availability
☐ Expressive Speech Delivery ® : define your vocal messages,
ALL ALL within 4h
choose voices and we deliver turnkey audio files.
☐ Expressive Speech Studio ® : using our exclusive text to
speech processing tool you will be able to create and optimize ALL ALL 24h/7d
your vocal messages by yourself.
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17. REAL-TIME TEXT TO SPEECH
Real time text to speech Specification Technology
- Real-time responding
☐ Expressive Speech Cloud ® - Client / server HTTP
- Shared or dedicated
- Real-time responding SAPI5
- Hosted by yourself MRCP
☐ Expressive Speech Server ®
- Scalable capacity TCP
- Under Linux and Windows HTTP
iOS
- Real-time responding
Android
☐ Expressive Speech Embedded ® - Embedded on device (mobile
Symbian
phones, TV, robots…)
Win Mobile
- Specific developments
☐ Expressive Speech SDK ® - Tailor made integration C++
- Partnership
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18. TRAINING AND SUPPORT
Training and support Language Availability
☐ Training : we train your teams to define vocal messages for your
business, to gain productivity with Expressive Speech Studio, to
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manage specific lexicon and to achieve innovative vocal services with
Expressive Speech SDK.
☐ Support : VOXYGEN’s specialists are following your project step from OH/5d
by step to ensure easy deployment and operational efficiency. to 24h/7d
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19. CUSTOM SERVICES
Custom services
☐ Expressive Voice Factory ® : actor casting, voice optimization for specific business and use
case, integration into several vocal services… VOXYGEN’s R&D experts work with you to create an
exclusive voice that meets all your needs.
☐ Expressive Incremental Voice ® : our R&D team is able to quickly build new voices and
languages, using a step by step service implementation process.
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20. Technical focus…
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21. VOXYGEN’S EXPRESSIVE SPEECH STUDIO ®
Web application Set audio format and Mix vocal messages
available 24h/7d save turnkey files with music
Capitalize files Batch audio
libraries creation
All in one text and
settings edition
One click speech
optimization
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22. VOXYGEN’S EXPRESSIVE SPEECH SERVER ®
Integrated on
your plateform
Use the SDK to
implement other clients
TCP/MRCP/HTTP
Server runs clients
under Linux/Windows
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23. VOXYGEN’S EXPRESSIVE SPEECH CLOUD ®
TTS client using
HTTP API
Any connected device can
access the service
High reliability
hosting
Shared or dedicated Expressive
Speech Server
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24. VOXYGEN’S EXPRESSIVE SPEECH EMBEDDED
®
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25. Pricing policy…
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26. EXPRESSIVE VOICES
Expressive voices Pricing
Multipurpose expressive voices ® fixed price
Funny expressive voices ® fixed price
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27. EXPRESSIVE SPEECH PRODUCTION
Expressive speech production Pricing
Expressive Speech Delivery ® by word
Expressive Speech Studio ® by speech duration
Expressive Speech Cloud ® by speech duration
Expressive Speech Server ® by stream capacity
Expressive Speech Embedded ® by deployed unit
Expressive Speech SDK ® partnership
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28. CUSTOM SERVICES
Custom services Pricing
Training fixed price
Standard support licence included
Custom support by ticket / tailor-made
Expressive Voice Factory ® tailor-made
tailor-made
Expressive Incremental Voice ®
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29. VOXYGEN company…
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30. BUILDING AN EXPERT TEAM
Thierry MOUDENC
Paul BAGSHAW
President
Technical Director
Background : expert in
human-computer
VOXYGEN Background : expert in
linguistics and software
interactions and speech
Start date : december 2011 engineering, 15 years of
processing, 12 years of
Business : text to speech solution editor development and
R&D management on
Added value : expressive speech expert responsibility modular
speech synthesis
Strength : natural voices, customized services language levels
Turnover : 500 k eur (2012)
Balance : positive
People : 20
Edouard HINARD Olivier ROSEC
Managing Director R&D Director
Background : expert in Background : voice
software engineering and creation and speech
speech processing, 10 Lene KRUSE signal processing
years towards the Sales and Marketing expert, 12 years of signal
industrialization of processing R&D for
speech synthesis Background : 5 years speech synthesis
experience on language
processing, has
developed and led for 7
years the head of valuing
speech synthesis
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31. CONTACTS…
Ludovic CAZOR
ludovic.cazor@voxygen.fr
mobile : +33 638 979 480
Sébastien MURY
sebastien.mury@voxygen.fr
mobile : +33 647 821 950
Lene KRUSE
lene.kruse@voxygen.fr
mobile : +33 684 972 085
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