Eloquens™ is a text-to-speech software, whose first version was released in 1993 by
CSELT
Telecom Italia Lab S.p.A. (formerly Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.A.; CSELT) is an Italian research center for telecommunication based in Torino, the biggest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.
It played a major r ...
. It was the first commercial
speech synthesis
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software able to speak Italian.
Description
It was the first commercial product of the research center CSELT in the field of voice technology. It was built with diphone-technology aimed to reach a high computational efficiency. As a result, the produced voice is still "robotic", but more natural than the previous generation voice implemented in
MUSA
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by CSELT itself. In the past, ELOQUENS was applied to automatically read timetables in the Italian train stations and some telephone services provided by
Telecom Italia
TIM S.p.A. (formerly Telecom Italia S.p.A.) is an Italian telecommunications company with headquarters in Rome, Milan, and Naples (with the Telecom Italia Tower), which provides fixed, public and mobile telephony, and DSL data services.
It is ...
, e.g. the automated address book service.
In 1997 Eloquens was also used as a building block (synthezer module) in dialogue systems.
Nowadays, it is released as
freeware
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: it is nowadays typically used in spoken comments in many
YouTube
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videos.
See also
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Loquendo
Loquendo was an Italian multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Torino, Italy, that provides speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and identification applications. Loquendo, which was founde ...
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vidby
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Acapela
References
Bibliography
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* {{cite journal , last1=Baggia , first1=Paolo , last2=Castagneri , first2=Giuseppe , last3=Danieli , first3=Morena , title=Field trials of the Italian Arise train timetable system , journal=Speech Communication , date=August 2000 , volume=31 , issue=4 , pages=355–367 , doi=10.1016/S0167-6393(99)00068-0
External links
Eloquens on Softonic
Speech synthesis software
Applications of artificial intelligence
Computational linguistics
History of human–computer interaction