MULTIVOX 4
Az első ingyenes magyar beszédszintetizátor szoftver
MultiVox4-HU was a free Hungarian text-to-speech software. Developer: BME Department of Telecommunications and Telematics (1990-2000). Basic research: Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Kempelen Farkas Speech Research Laboratory. The goal of BME TMIT was to create the first free national speech synthesizer.
Anyone could download it and could use free of charge in any application. It produced male and female voices, moreover telephone voice timbre, whisper and hoarse voice coud be synthesized as well. It was equipped with a standard Microsoft SAPI 4.0 programming interface and could be used on the most common operating systems (Win 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP and CE). The sound of the synthesizer appeared on all PCs having a sound card without any other additions device.
The free text-to-speech converter in Hungarian helped to create individual applications and to develop a technological culture that uses synthetic speech. The programmable interface gave program developers the ability to build any speech application (for games, office and industrial applications, custom personal software). It has also been used well in special areas. For example: the disabled, the visually impaired, and the speech impaired. The development of the free software was supported by the IT Government Commission in 2001-2002.
Multivox-4 voices
The first free Hungarian speaking software is a different version of a man’s voice.