E-mail reader (Mailmondó) available by phone
Mailbox, service 1999-2010
Mailmondó was introduced by Westel 900 in 1999 in Budapest, Hungary. At the Eurospeech ’99 conference in Budapest on September 6, Westel 900 Rt. presented its pilot e-mail reader system called Mailmondó and the pilot service based on it. The speech synthesizer of the BME TMIT ProfiVox-diad was used in the voice mail service.
Voiced SMS service over Internet (2002)
Do you find the SMS boring? Is it a thing of the past to send a text message? Then send a phone call! How? Simply! Write an SMS to the VoiceMan! Write down who to call and what to tell him. The rest is up to the VoiceMan. He will then dial and read aloud your text message in an irresistible synthetic voice.
SMS reader built into a mobile phone
SMS reader was used in T-Mobile devices between 2003 and 2013 in Hungary.
In cooperation with the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME TMIT), the M.I.T. Systems, the Nokia and the Westel the mobile phone owners with Symbian operating system will be able to use new Hungarian-developed software capable of reading SMS. The software is installed free of charge on compatible phones at the Westel company’s service stations. The user of the device can choose to read or listen the SMS messages. SMS narrator was the first such solution in the world.
Automatic user directory inquiry
Automatic user directory inquiry service based on phone number
(T-Mobile Hungary, 2004-2010, Vodafone 2008-2012).
After dialing the application and entering the telephone number, the machine voice told the data of the number owner in Hungarian. The program was capable to read aloud at any time the private name or the company name and the postal address of the subscriber for the whole territory of Hungary.
Phone and price list reader
Automatic mobile phone and price list reader
(T-Mobile, experimental system, 2008)
This was a text-to-speech reader for application-oriented topic in a telephone service. The type and the price of the mobile phones available at T-Mobile could be heard with T-Mobile’s official female voice. The text and the sound databese for synthesis were updated weekly. It was a hybrid speech technology solution that used concatenated natural announcements and synthesized sentences with the same voice timbre, for the first time in a telephone customer service system.