CU VOCAL Web Service: A Text-to-speech Synthesis Web Service for Voice-enabled Web-mediated Applications

This paper presents the implementation of the CU VOCAL Web service, one of the first Chinese text-to-speech synthesis Web services. The CU VOCAL Web service can be easily integrated with other Web services to develop innovative Web-mediated applications. We have developed a novel automatic voice alert system in the stocks domain by integrating CU VOCAL and several other Web services. This system can monitor a real-time financial information feed for alert conditions pre-specified in the user's personalized profile, and trigger synthesized spoken messages to alert the user via the (mobile) telephone. Keywords text-to-speech, Web services, interoperability

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Helen M. Meng, Tin Hang Lo, Chi-Kin Keung, Man Cheuk Ho, Wai Kit Lo, P. C. Ching
• Keywords: CU VOCAL Web, Internet Technology, Text-to-speech Synthesis Web, VOCAL Web Service, WWW 2003