Text to Speech Audio Upgrade Improves Communication

TextSpeak has released the TTS-EM-HD2, a small yet all-inclusive voice synthesis paging and announcement product.

Targeted to deploy with unified hospital communications, the stand-alone package requires only a single digital input signal to produce spoken audio. The conversion text data to a clear, natural sounding voice is completely automatic. TextSpeak’s real-time audio announcements support over 20 languages.

Dynamic and real-time dispatch center information, alerts and security warnings can be spoken from computer message queues, streaming data or directly from typed text. The TextSpeak integrated audio amplifiers deliver the synthesized sound to paging systems, radio and video channels, or directly to a single speaker.

Medical call centers dispatch may supplement SMS, beeper and text displays to a clear and understandable voice directly to doctors, nurses and EMS staff. Safety is also enhanced when used to supplement existing public address systems. Mass notification and emergency messages can be sent and broadcast from information at remote command centers. Digital signage can be automatically upgraded to include audio announcements. In addition, patients with disabilities, both blind or with limited sight can be accommodated with audio announcements.

The TTS-EM scales to meet the most demanding specifications.

• Speech can be created from existing sources, such as computer generated SMS, beeper, digital signage data.
• Informational alerts can be pre-programmed and started with the push of a button or launched remotely by automated systems.
• Emergency vehicles can offer dynamic announcement information transmitted by radio, from stored data, or updated locally from a keyboard.
• Multi-lingual announcements can be easily generated, with precise accents, to speak directly to international visitors and patients
• Audio messaging can be queued for sequential delivery. Real time text can be supplemented with pre-recorded messages or tones
• Deployment is suited for hospitals, nursing facilities, parking systems, elevators and public areas.

“The speech quality we digitally synthesize is nearly indistinguishable from a spoken human voice,” said Nancy Wolfe, president of TextSpeak. “We have removed the requirement of a PC interface and created a flexible deployment model with a suite of world languages. This will help medical services converge visual data with speech. Audio messaging improves eyes-on-patient care, supports unified communications at a low cost that is designed to integrate with existing hospital software and systems.”

TextSpeak speech systems are currently deployed in hospitals, transportation facilities and municipal areas worldwide. TTS-EM-HD2 versions are available in as board level products and in mountable enclosures and are priced at $300 in quantities. Single unit evaluation packages are available online.

TTS-EM-HD2 World Languages include: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, among others.

About TextSpeak
TextSpeak designs and produces human sounding embedded text to speech (TTS) voice solutions for medical, transportation, banking, industrial systems and security. Automatic voice announcements support unified messaging for hospitals and provide real-time notification without sacrificing eyes-on-patient activities for healthcare providers. TextSpeak also manufactures low cost Talking Keyboards that give a voice to people who have trouble speaking, either permanently or in post operation. For more information, visit www.textspeak.com.