Articles - Speak Easy from Black Ice

Black Ice Software, LLC recently entered the Text-to-Speech software market with the introduction of Speak Easy, a TTS development toolkit . The new Text-to-Speech development toolkit was designed for developers who want to add an advanced system of speech synthesis to their telephony and multimedia applications.

The TTS toolkit makes it more affordable for programmers to add high quality synthesized speech output to their Windows applications. Black Ice provides tools which enable a programmer to integrate TTS into their applications.

It speaks any ASCII text with a voice that is close to human and eliminates the expense of pre-recorded speech. It allows developers to reduce their development cost and time to market.
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