• Emotional TTS

Developers can choose from 4 different speaking styles: neutral, lively, forceful, and empathic

• Gilded speechdatabases

Speaking styles are enhanced by selecting expressive pre- recorded prompts (incl. nonverbal) from a “gilded speech” database accompanying the TTS voice

• New timbre markup tag controls the perceived

age, gender, or physical size of a TTS voice

• Multi-lingual support

Automatic language identification, foreign language dictionaries, and high-quality acoustic extensions provide unparalleled multi-lingual readout

• Seamless prompt insertion

Recorded audio prompts or tuned prompts are seamlessly blended with dynamic text-to-speech using automatic text matching (active prompt mechanism)

• Offline Audio Generation
  
• Free Audio Path Design
  
• Prosody control

Volume, pitch, speaking rate, and timbre can be changed at run time for more dynamic and lively effects

• Phonetic input

Optimize quality using phonetic information from an external contents source like music or map data

• User text rules

Write regular expressions to expand custom abbreviations and text patterns

• User dictionaries

Create your own dictionaries for out-of-vocabulary Words

• Prompt sculpting

Change unit selection results manually to increase expressibility and remove glitches

• SSML support
  Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) allows for TTS vendor-independent markup
  
• SAPI support
  Operate the TTS Engine over the Windows Speech Application Programming Interface.