Increasing the scope of solutions available in niche areas of Speech Technology, Alivox has announced joint relationships with some of the UK’s smartest companies with expertise in the following key areas.

Spoken Language Identification:                        Alivox
Text to speech technology:                                Cereproc
Emotion Recognition:                                        Affective Media
Keyword spotting speech application:                  VoxIQ
Voice Biometrics:                                              Speech Sentinel

Cereproc
CereProc has developed the world's most advanced text to speech technology. Cereproc voices not only sound real, they have character, making them suitable for any application that requires speech output.

CereProc is a Scottish company, based in Edinburgh, the home of advanced speech synthesis research, with a sales office in London. The CereProc team have extensive experience across the entire speech technology domain. CereProc's technology, quite literally, speaks for itself.

www.cereproc.com

Affective Media
Affective Media is an emotion engineering laboratory dedicated to making technology more emotionally engaging and responsive, and inherently more naturally useable.

Affective media can offer a range of services and tailored technology solutions to allow professional technology developers to tap into the emotional desires and needs of their users and clients.

Affective Media can help you to understand what your users feel about your technology, and develop solutions which are emotionally appealing and desirable and can also continuously monitor your client moods so as to meet their needs more effectively

www.affectivemedia.com

Speech Sentinel
Speech Sentinel Ltd. is a UK company which specialises in the field of Voice Biometrics. Speech Sentinel has developed unique patented software algorithms, providing high accuracy, speed and scalability. The software is easily adapted to customer requirements and enhancements, and can be delivered on various technology platforms.

The technology can perform in the Pass Phrase mode (Text Dependent TD) and the Free Speech Mode (Test Independent TI) which allows Speech Sentinel to perform both Speaker Verification and Speaker Identification.

www.speechsentinel.co.uk

VoxIQ
VoxIQ is a young company with an innovative market leading product invented by the founder whilst employed by BAE SYSTEMS plc in a defence environment. As the development of enabling IT technologies is not core business for BAE SYSTEMS, the company has provided a world wide exclusive and perpetual licence to VoxIQ Ltd.

VoxIQ is a patented enabling technology that overcomes the limit on the number of words used in any keyword spotting speech application. This allows for a step change in the way Automatic Speech Recognition may be developed to provide deep, wide and seriously useful applications that reduce operational expenditure while increasing revenue.

www.voxiq.com