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CommPower Text-to-Speech CommPower Text-to-Speech Broadcast System (CTBS)Broadcast System (CTBS)

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SystemSystemVoices

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Female

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Languages

English

Spanish

French

German

Italian

(with localized pronunciation &

accents)

CTBS User Interface

 The CTBS user interface has five selectable tabs:

• Status

• Dictionaries

• Control

• Configuration

• Scheduler

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Status

 Status is the default screen that is displayed when the user interface is started.

The operator selectable options are:

• Reset Status

• Print Status

• Exit

• Help

• About

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Dictionaries

The CTBS is configured with a default dictionary provided with the AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech engine. The CTBS provides an interface to create and modify custom (site) dictionaries.

The operator selectable options are:

• Get Dictionary

• New Dictionary

• New Word

• Save

• Clear

• Exit

• Help

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Control

The CTBS allows the user to control/change the volume and speaking rate of the voices and to customize various CTBS functions

The operator selectable options are:

• Apply

• Exit

• Help

• Volume

• Speaking Rate

• Misc. Controls:

• Input / Output

• Email

• Manual Prime

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Configuration

Configuration allows the user to specify message/directory locations for both English and Spanish custom & application dictionaries.

The operator selectable configuration fields are:

- Custom Dictionaries

- Server Network Properties

- Default Directories

- CTBS Functions

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• Exit

• Help

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Scheduler

The CTBS scheduler allows digitized voice (WAV) files (stored in pre-defined directories) to be scheduled and output to internal voice processing boards and/or sent (via the local area network) to external destinations.

The operator selectable options are:

• New Message

• Save

• Delete

• View Records

• View Schedule

• Exit

• Help

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View Scheduler

View Schedule displays the current broadcast schedule including message name, message creation date, the number of times the message has been broadcast, and whether the message is broadcast time defined. Messages in the scheduler are broadcast in a top down manner. As a message is played, the message is highlighted. At the end of the broadcast cycle the schedule is repeated. As new messages are input into CTBS they are added to the scheduler. At the bottom of the user interface are options to control the scheduler.

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CTBS Voices and Languages

Hello, I’m Crystal, the English female voice. As mentioned in this presentation, CTBS supports Male & Female voices (with vocalization for Child, Teen, Adult, Senior) in a variety of languages; English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian … all with localized accents and pronunciations.

CTBS continues to expand it's offering of new voice fonts and languages as they are developed and released.

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System Platform: LINUX, Windows XP/7, Windows Server System Platform: LINUX, Windows XP/7, Windows Server 2003/20082003/2008

Input: ASCII Text MessagesInput: ASCII Text Messages

Output: High quality human-like Speech audio files (.wav)Output: High quality human-like Speech audio files (.wav)

TTS Engine: AT&T Natural Voices™TTS Engine: AT&T Natural Voices™

GUI: Intuitive operator interface facilitates control and GUI: Intuitive operator interface facilitates control and monitoring of selected messages and broadcast schedules, monitoring of selected messages and broadcast schedules, including; choice of male/female voices, languages, output including; choice of male/female voices, languages, output audio levels, speaking rates, word pronunciations via audio levels, speaking rates, word pronunciations via interactive phonetic dictionary.interactive phonetic dictionary.

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