1. Speech technologies in transport
September 2016

2. Company Overview Established in 1998
Wide Range of Mobile Products and Services
Diversified Distribution Channels
Experienced and Highly Motivated Team
Based in Barcelona, Spain

3. What we do Services: Products:
Distribution of Vocalizer Expressive and Vocon in Europe.
App development Consulting
Tailored software development.
Products:
Mobile Apps (eg. Vocalizer and Eloquence for Android).
Accessibility products for various Mobile platforms.
Built-in Accessibility for OEMs (eg. partnering with Microsoft).

4. Why Partner with Code Factory
10+ Years Experienced Development Team
In-House Development
In-depth Knowledge of the Nuance technology.
We provide innovative solutions that help people in every day situations.
Our customer oriented team is responsive, dynamic and flexible.

5. Nuance Vocalizer Technology
Unit-Selection Schema
Front-End
Text and linguistic processing
Language data (lexica)
Text processing rules and dictionaries
Back-End
Audio synthesis based on recorded material (units)
Voice data
Input Text
Speech
Front-End
Linguistic Processing
Back-End
Signal Generation
Text Preprocessor
Linguistic Preprocessor
Unit Selection
Synthesizer
Language data
Voice data

6. Vocalizer Expressive Heritage
Built on huge experience in TTS systems
TTS 2500
TTS 3000
RealSpeak
Speechify & Speechify Solo
RealSpeak & RealSpeak Solo
rVoice
RealSpeak, RealSpeak Solo & Prompt Sculptor
Nuance Vocalizer
Vocalizer for Automotive / Mobile
SVOX TTS
Loquendo TTS
Vocalizer Expressive
2001
2012

7. Express Yourself with Vocalizer Expressive
Vocalizer Expressive is:
Human-like
Smooth
Smart
Expressive
Naturally-
sounding

8. Expressivity What makes Vocalizer expressive? Pronunciation accuracy
CORRECT
Pronunciation accuracy
Pronounce words in a correct way
Speaking style
Set correct breaks for longer sentences
Emphasis
Put emphasis where it naturally belongs
Paralinguistic phenomena
Gilded speech databases containing laughs, hesitations, and others
FLUENT
LIVELY
NATURAL

9. Vocalizer Expressive Most important product features     
Superior output quality
Improved audio quality by new audio codec in Vocalizer Expressive 2.0
Improved smoothness by new signal processing algorithms
Natural prosody by syntactical analysis
Improved multi-lingual approach
More accurate language identification
High quality acoustic extensions
Global cross-lingual mappings 
Common Linguistic Component (CLC) shared with Nuance VoCon
Allow for pronunciation consistency between speech input and output
Embedded SSML support
Use W3C conform solution for more generic applications
Connected TTS
TTS getting smarter every day   

10. Vocon – speech recognition

11. Voice Interaction Preferred Way to Provide and Receive Information
Productive
Use time better
Personalized
Underscore product uniqueness with custom voice
Fun
Give voice to characters and devices
Safe
Listen, not read
Accessible
UI for visually impaired
Natural
100% human interaction with NLU
Expressive
Voice that has personality
and understands meaning
High Quality
High Recognition Accuracy
Simple
Just say what you want, no buttons needed

12. TTS Use-Cases

13. Deployments in the transportation sector
All public announcements on board Italian National Railway trains
&
All public announcements inside train stations
All public announcements on board German National Railway trains –made with a SPECIAL CUSTOM voice!
&

14. Deployments in the transportation sector
Nurnberg
ATAP Pordenone
SAF Udine
APT Gorizia
APTV Verona
ATM Milano

15. Language Portfolio
Languages Available with Vocalizer Expressive by July 2016
Arabic
Argentinean Spanish
Australian English
Basque
Belgian Dutch
Brazilian Portuguese
British English
Bulgarian
Canadian French
Cantonese
Catalan
Colombian Spanish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indian English
Indonesian
Irish English
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Mandarin
Mexican Spanish
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
South African English
Scottish English
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Taiwanese Mandarin
Thai
Turkish
US English
Valencian

16. Voice Portfolio
Voices Available with Vocalizer Expressive by July 2016
Language
Female
Male
Arabic
Laila X
Maged, Tarik X
Argent. Spanish --
Diego X
Austral. English
Karen
Lee
Basque
Miren X
Belgian Dutch
Ellen
Brazil. Portuguese
Luciana
Felipe X
British English
Kate X, Serena
Daniel, Oliver
Bulgarian
Daria
Canadian French
Amelie, Chantal
Nicolas
Cantonese
Sin-Ji
Catalan
Montserrat X
Jordi X
Colom. Spanish
Soledad X
Carlos X
Croatian
Lana
Czech
Iveta, Zuzana
Danish
Sara
Magnus X
Dutch
Claire-ML
Xander
Language
Female
Male
Finnish
Satu
Onni X
French
Audrey-ML, Aurelie
Thomas
Galician
Carmela X --
German
Anna-ML, Petra-ML X
Markus, Yannick
Greek
Melina
Nikos X
Hindi
Lekha
Neel
Hebrew
Carmit
Hungarian
Mariska
Indian English
Veena
Rishi
Indonesian
Damayanti
Irish English
Moira
Italian
Alice-ML, Federica-ML X, Paola X
Luca X
Japanese
Ayane, Mizuki, Kyoko, Sakura
Otoya X, Daisuke, Ichiro
Korean
Sora, Yuna
Mandarin
Li-Li,Tian-Tian
Bin-Bin
Mexican Spanish
Angelica, Paulina
Juan
Language
Female
Male
Norwegian
Nora
Henrik X
Polish
Ewa, Zosia X
Krzysztof X
Portuguese
Catarina, Joana
Joaquim X
Romanian
Ioana X --
Russian
Katya-ML, Milena
Yuri
Scottish English
Fiona
Slovak
Laura
S. African English
Tessa
Spanish
Marisol-ML, Mónica-ML
Jorge X
Swedish
Alva, Klara
Oskar
Taiwan. Mandarin
Mei-Jia
Thai
Kanya
Turkish
Yelda
Cem-ML
US English
Allison X, Ava-ML X, Samantha, Susan X, Zoe
Tom
Valencian
Empar
ML: multilingual voice, X: gilded speech DB available

17. Vocalizer Roadmap Overview 2015 2016 2017 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Subject to change
Overview
2015
2016
2017 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Vocalizer Expressive 2.0.1:
Improved Japanese
More efficient memory access
Vocalizer Expressive 2.2:
Improved Cantonese
Improved Japanese
English ML for Maged ARW voice
Vocalizer Expressive 2.1:
New language Chilean Spanish
New language Croatian
New Indian languages
English ML for Amelie FRC voice
English ML for Paulina SPM voice
Improved Taiwanese Mandarin
Improved dictionary handling
Vocalizer Expressive 3.0:
New language Malay
Mandarin Embedded High
Next quality improvement step
New CLC setup
Quarters refer to calendar year

18. Thank you