Digium and Cepstral Enter Text-To-Speech Partnership for Linux Telephony

PITTSBURGH and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Digium and Cepstral partnered to provide Cepstral Swift Text-To-Speech (TTS) languages and voices for Digium's Linux telephony platforms and applications. Under the arrangement, Cepstral becomes a Digium Premier Partner for providing commercial Text-To-Speech.

The offering will include Cepstral's telephony voices - David, Diane and William for U.S. English, as well as options for U.K. English, German, Canadian French, American Spanish, and Italian - for use in multi-channel applications on the Linux operating system. Each will be available from Digium, and incorporated into key products and services.

Digium's products and services featuring the Cepstral Swift TTS voices will be available in June of 2005.