OKI Offers Polluxstar(R), a Text-to-Speech Software That Reproduces One´s Real Voice

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6703) today announced it has launched “Polluxstar®(1)” a text-to-speech (TTS) software that enables reproduction of a user’s real voice complete with that individual’s unique intonations and tones. By using Polluxstar on a computer, users can communicate using their own voice, instead of a mechanical non-human voice. “OKI has many years of experience in voice communication technology and has achieved a high market share in the VoIP(2) and CTI(3) markets in Japan. By expanding its technology capabilities, OKI has succeeded in offering TTS software that not only is easy to listen to, but also can express each user’s personality by reproducing his or her real voice,” said Yuichiro Hiranuma, President of Ubiquitous Service Platform Company at OKI. “As a company, we aim to contribute to the... [read full story]