Nuance Vocalizer for Mobile 5 is Nuance's latest generation of very-small footprint and high quality text-to-speech engine targeted specifically for the mobile environment. Combining the quality and naturalness of traditional corpus-based approaches with the flexibility of parametric systems, Vocalizer provides at very low footprints excellent quality and naturalness to address the requirements of mobile applications developers. It offers unrivaled flexibility for changing at run time speaking rate, pitch, and voice characteristics. Nuance Vocalizer for Mobile will be supported in over 20 languages and over 30 voices. Featuring an advanced and flexible software architecture, voice and language updates will be available as simple data file packages that support immediate plug-and-play of the latest voices.

With it's unequaled low footprint and high intelligibility, Nuance Vocalizer for Mobile 5 for mobile opens up a range of new applications on the handset. More specifically:

• Talking caller id
  The name of a caller is announced clearly, allowing the user to screen his calls and decide to take a call or not.
• SMS and E-Mail reading
  With built-in text-processing intelligence Vocalizer for Mobile provides excellent SMS and E-Mail reading capabilities, allowing the user to access all his messages in an eyes-free manner.
• Turn-by-turn instructions
  Navigation instructions can be read back clearly while letting the user focus on the road.
• Avatars
  With it's run-time tailoring capabilities. Vocalizer provides a ideal engine to animate avatars.

Sample 1: SMS and E-Mail reading
Sample 2: Talking caller id

• 16 kHz, 16 bit PCM output
• 0.5 MB core engine
• 1 MB ROM per language+voice pack
• 1.5 MB of RAM at run time
• 60 MIPS
• Portable on all embedded platforms
• WinCE, WM5 and Symbian Software Development Kit
• Lower complexity and lower footprint version (< 700 kB for language+voice pack) at 8 kHz for heavily constrained platforms
• Languages - Check with your Nuance representative on availability of the SDK version and on language and voice roll-out
• Demonstration - Check with your Nuance representative for a SYMBIAN demonstration package