CereProc
Developer(s) | CereProc Ltd., UK |
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Initial release | 2005 |
Stable release | July 2013
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Written in | C/Python |
Cross-platform | |
Available in | English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Romanian, Japanese, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Swedish, Polish, Irish, Danish, Norwegian, Mandarin, Russian, Lithuanian, Welsh |
Type | Text-to-speech |
Licence | Commercial |
Website | www |
CereProc (
Voice building technology
CereProc creates voices using two different voice-building technologies: unit selection synthesis and parametric modelling.
CereProc's unit selection voices are built from large
CereProc's parametric voices produce speech synthesis based on statistical modelling methodologies. In this system, the
Voices and languages
CereProc has 81 generally-available voices that speak 24 languages in a number of different regional accents:
- American English: Isabella, Katherine, Hannah, Megan, Adam, Nathan, Andy (child voice), Jordan (child voice), Carolyn, Sam (gender neutral voice)
- Southern English: Sarah, William, Jack, Lauren, Giles, Amy, Lily (child voice), Ben (child voice)
- Northern English: Jess
- Scottish English: Heather, Kirsty, Stuart, Andrew (child voice), Mairi (child voice)
- Glasgow English: Dodo
- Lancashire English: Claire
- Irish English: Caitlin
- Welsh English: Seren (child voice), Catrin (child voice), Gethin (child voice), Owain (child voice), Rhodri (teenage voice), Tomos (teenage voice), Ffion (teenage voice), Rhian (teenage voice)
- West Midlands English: Sue
- Special FX voices: Demon, Ghost, Goblin, Pixie, Robot
- Metropolitan French: Suzanne, Laurent
- Canadian French: Florence
- Catalan: Rita
- Castilian Spanish: Sara
- Mexican Spanish: Ana
- Italian: Laura, Dario, Francesco (child voice), Nicoletta (child voice)
- Irish: Peig
- Dutch: Ada
- Standard German: Gudrun, Alex
- Austrian German: Leopold
- European Portuguese: Lúcia
- Brazilian Portuguese: Gabriel
- Japanese: Yuki
- Scottish Gaelic: Ceitidh
- Swedish: Ylva, Anders
- Polish: Pola
- Romanian: Daria
- French-accented English: Nicole
- Russian: Avrora
- Mandarin: Mailin
- Danish: Marie, Lars
- Norwegian (Bokmål): Clara
- Norwegian (Nynorsk): Hulda
- Lithuanian: Mantas, Egle
- Welsh: Seren (child voice), Catrin (child voice), Gethin (child voice), Owain (child voice), Rhodri (teenage voice), Tomos (teenage voice), Ffion (teenage voice), Rhian (teenage voice)
In addition, the company has developed a number of celebrity voices that are not generally available to the public. These include George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger.[3]
Voice cloning
In 2009, film critic Roger Ebert employed CereProc to create a synthetic version of his voice. Ebert had lost the power of speech following surgery to treat thyroid cancer. CereProc mined tapes and DVD commentaries featuring Ebert's voice to create a text-to-speech voice that sounded more like his own.[4] Roger Ebert used the voice in his March 2, 2010, appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
NFL player
CereProc voice cloning technology is currently being used in the UK by people with MND, to create synthesis voices before they lose the power of speech. This process was featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Giving the Critic Back His Voice, broadcast in August 2011.[6]
System compatibility
CereProc voices can be deployed on different
See also
References
- ^ Alan W. Black, Perfect synthesis for all of the people all of the time. IEEE TTS Workshop 2002.
- ^ "Cerevoice Me".
- ^ "CereProc Voices".
- ^ Roger Ebert: The Essential Man "Esquire", February 16, 2010. Accessed: 9-21-2011
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
- ^ "Giving the Critic Back His Voice". BBC Radio Scotland Programmes. Retrieved October 26, 2011.
External links
- Official website
- Roger Ebert demonstrates his CereProc voice Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine at TED2011 at 7:28