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Qfrency Tts Technological Symphony Crafting Connections And Changing Lives

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)Ref: https://www.csir.co.za/qfrency-tts-technological-symphony-crafting-connections-and-changing-lives

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This is a CSIR feature article introducing Qfrency TTS, a commercial multilingual text-to-speech engine. It says the engine can synthesise speech in South Africa’s eleven official spoken languages, as well as South African Sign language, and can support screen readers, chatbots and interactive voice response systems.

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Qfrency TTS

Qfrency TTS is a commercial text-to-speech engine that generates human-like speech from digital text in South Africa’s national languages and can support applications such as screen readers, chatbots and interactive voice response systems.

Who it is for: Applications such as screen readers, chatbots and interactive voice response systems
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Qfrency TTS is the first commercial text-to-speech engine that can synthesise speech in all eleven officially spoken languages of South Africa, with South African Sign language being the twelfth.

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https://www.csir.co.za/qfrency-tts-technological-symphony-crafting-connections-and-changing-lives

Key Takeaways

Qfrency TTS is a commercial text-to-speech engine
Speech synthesis in all eleven officially spoken languages of South Africa
South African Sign language is described as the twelfth language
Applications include screen readers, chatbots and interactive voice response systems
Technology was orchestrated by the CSIR Voice Computing Research Group
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
CSIR Voice Computing Research Group
Qfrency TTS