MEDIA RELEASE PR39794
SVOX and Cyberon Announce Partnership for Greater China
ZURICH, June 2 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
SVOX, the leading provider of speech solutions, today announced that it has
entered into a wide-ranging partnership agreement with Cyberon Corporation, a leading
Taiwanese embedded speech firm. Taiwanese companies are the world's biggest
manufacturers of mobile phones, eBook readers, MP3 players and other consumer
electronics. The announced collaboration will allow SVOX to drive penetration of
speech technologies in these devices. SVOX stands to benefit from Cyberon's knowledge
of the Taiwanese market as well as from the local customer support.
The companies have already completed joint development projects that make the
SVOX language portfolio even more competitive in Asia. For example, the collaboration
has produced best-in-class Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese languages that include SVOX
polyglot technology, enabling Asian voices to speak English as a native speaker.
"SVOX text-to-speech solutions are industry-leading and the breadth of the
language portfolio is impressive," said Tai Ho, Cyberon CEO. "We are delighted to
partner with SVOX to offer our customers in Taiwan a world-leading speech quality and
local support."
Martin Reber, SVOX CEO, noted: "Taiwan is a hotbed of global consumer electronics
design and manufacturing, as well as a gateway to the vast Greater China market. By
partnering with Cyberon we are able to accelerate our growth in these markets as well
as strengthen our technology leadership."
SVOX is constantly working to extend and update its portfolio of polyglot ASR and
TTS languages. Customers can now choose from a total of 19 ASR and 26 TTS languages,
with additional languages under development.
About SVOX AG
SVOX, a leading supplier of speech solutions, has a reputation for quality and
customer focus. SVOX drives adoption of speech user interfaces in automotive and
mobile device industries. The company offers Speech Recognition (ASR), Speech Output
(TTS) as well as complete Speech Dialog solutions. Our focus on quality and the use
of flexible software architectures allows for optimized embedded speech solutions
that can be easily tailored to customers' technical requirements and market needs.
About Cyberon Corporation
Cyberon Corporation, with its headquarter in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading
embedded speech solution provider and supported by experts experienced in Speech
Recognition and Text-to-Speech technologies for tens of years. Cyberon's speech
solution is developed specifically for mobile & portable devices to provide users a
convenient, natural and reliable user experience.
SOURCE: SVOX AG
CONTACT: Alexander Davydov,
Phone +41 43 544 06 22,
alexander.davydov@svox.com
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