Signate Adds Text-to-Speech Option to Telephone Service Provider Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO - Signate, a provider of VoIP telephone solutions based on industry standard hardware and open source software, integrated Cepstral's Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine and voices into its SigProvider and SigCarrier solutions for telephone service providers.

SigProvider and SigCarrier enable providers to offer telephone services to individual consumers, small businesses, and large enterprises. The addition of Signate's Cepstral TTS Option means provider customers can offer interactive voice response dialogs to telephone customers, such as weather updates, theater ticket ordering and account balance inquiries.

The Cepstral TTS Option will begin shipping during the second quarter of 2006.