Cepstral is a provider of
speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
technology and services. It was founded in June 2000 by scientists from
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
including the computer scientists
Kevin Lenzo
Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC)., released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cep ...
and
Alan W. Black
Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute
The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon Universi ...
. It is a privately held corporation with headquarters in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
.
The company primarily produces synthetic voices to be used in telephony systems, mobile applications, desktop applications, and with other TTS software such as open-source
Festival
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.
See also
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Cepstrum
In Fourier analysis, the cepstrum (; plural ''cepstra'', adjective ''cepstral'') is the result of computing the inverse Fourier transform (IFT) of the logarithm of the estimated signal spectrum. The method is a tool for investigating periodic st ...
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Kevin Lenzo
Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC)., released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cep ...
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Alan W. Black
Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute
The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) is a research institute at Carnegie Mellon Universi ...
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Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
References
External links
The Cepstral website
Software companies based in Pennsylvania
Software companies of the United States
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