Do you want to use text-to-speech technology in your interactive web applications?
SpeechMachine is a ReadSpeaker product for on-demand text-to-speech conversion that produces audio from the text you send. Thanks to a simple HTTP API it is easy to integrate in most development environments including Flash, PHP, Shockwave etc. Increase interactivity between people and web based applications and services. Create fun interactive Internet campaigns. ReadSpeaker SpeechMachine offers a rapid development of speech functionality for your web application.
Examples of how ReadSpeaker SpeechMachine has been used:
Award winning International web campaigns:
- User generated dialogue between different characters in a movie. (The user writes the scripts and the actors read them)
- Applications for sending "talking postcards"
- Speech enabling avatars in user generated "speakers corner" campaign
Other purposes:
- Speech enabling theoretical driver license exam to increase the accessibility for people with reading difficulties/dyslexia
- Speech enabling emails and newsletters
ReadSpeaker SpeechMachine offers speech in 11 languages, and for many of the languages there is both a male and a female voice. There are two different speech technologies that we can use, one more "robotic" but extremely flexible and customizable when it comes to pitch, speed and dynamic, and one more "natural" that has a near-to-human speech quality.
Price model
We offer this as a fully hosted service with a capacity or a consumption based model.
Capacity based subscription
The Capacity based subscription model is ideal when you do not really know how many text-to-speech calls that you will need to do, or the length of each text. You will get a dedicated capacity and the minimum capacity is real-time generation and one audio delivery channel. This means that if you send a text that results in 4 seconds of speech, it will be delivered back to you in 4 seconds. After 4 seconds the resource is free again to receive a new call. You can increase the number of real-time factors and the number of audio delivery channels to suit your need.
Consumption based subscription
With this subscription model you need to make an estimate of how many hours of produced speech you need. Then you fill up your account pretty much like a pre-paid phone card. So, you pay for the number of speech-hours produced.
Contact us
If you want more information about how you can use ReadSpeaker SpeechMachine, get a demo, or have a quote, please contact us.