Founded in 2001 in Turin, Italy, Loquendo transformed speech technology from robotic monotone into expressive, high-quality audio. Their breakthrough was "ACTOR," a synthesis approach that used the selection and concatenation of acoustic units to create natural intonation.
"On the edge of the harbor," the voice intoned during the demo, "a child traced the constellation of ship lights and wished the boats would take him to the places names make sacred." The investors leaned forward. The room grew still; the TTS had made a small, profound thing of a common sentence. loquendo tts demo
While Loquendo was revolutionary for its time, it operates on (stitching together small recorded sound snippets). Founded in 2001 in Turin, Italy, Loquendo transformed