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GPS Business News: Switzerland-based SVOX, a provider of text to speech (TTS) solutions to the automotive and wireless industries announced today the acquisition of the Professional Speech Processing Group of Siemens AG. This unit, specializing in speech recognition and Voice dialog engine, has a staff of about 20 people and was working for customers such as Volkswagen and Continental.

The intellectual property acquired from Siemens was developed over 25 years and include more than 60 patent families.

“In the past SVOX has only been providing technology for making cars and portable devices talk
to you,” explained Volker Jantzen. “As a result of this deal, we are now able to make those devices also understand what you are saying. A real dialog between you and the machine is therefore now possible”.

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VNUNet.com: Microsoft has teamed up with embedded speech and text-to-voice provider Svox to develop speech technology for use in cars.

A new generation of in-vehicle speech options will be designed to meet the automotive industry’s growing demand for complex, multi-lingual and high quality text-to-speech platforms, according to Microsoft.

The companies argue that, working together, they will be able to turn around projects much faster than the typical automotive industry’s product development cycle.

Martin Thall, general manager of Microsoft’s Automotive Business Unit, said: “Svox text-to-speech enhances the user experience of automotive infotainment systems”.

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