Cepstral (company)

Cepstral LLC

Industry	Speech Synthesis
Founded	June 2000
Founder(s)	Kevin Lenzo Alan W. Black
Headquarters	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Products	Cepstral Text-To-Speech
Website	http://www.cepstral.com

Cepstral is a provider of speech synthesis technology and services. It was founded by leading scientists from Carnegie Mellon University including computer scientists Kevin Lenzo and Alan W. Black, in June 2000. It is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Company provides rapid delivery of state-of-the-art speech synthesis applications on a broad range of platforms, from the smallest hand-held devices to the largest centralized servers.^[1]

The company primarily produces synthetic voices to be used in telephony systems,^[2] mobile applications, desktop applications, and with other TTS software such as open-source Festival. ^[3]

Cepstral's technology was in the South Park episode Crème Fraiche as the voice of a piece of voice-assisted exercise equipment.^[4]

See also

• Kevin Lenzo
• Speech Synthesis

External links

• The Cepstral website

References

1. ^ "Cepstral Text-to-Speech". Cepstral.com. http://cepstral.com/cgi-bin/news?page=2001-11-19-00. Retrieved November 6, 2011. 
2. ^ Adam Boretz. "Voice Elements Integrates Cepstral TTS". SpeechTechMag.com. http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Voice-Elements-Integrates-Cepstral-TTS--52535.aspx. Retrieved November 6, 2011. 
3. ^ "Cepstral Text-to-Speech". Cepstral.com. http://cepstral.com/cgi-bin/support?page=faq&type=i386-linux#festival. Retrieved November 6, 2011. 
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