RealSpeak system

RealSpeak The RealSpeak system [108] was another significant landmark in that it was the first commercial unit selection system to be deployed. RealSpeak achieved yet further heights in terms of naturalness, and was showed that unit selection could be deployed in real time commercial systems, proof that practical constraints such as database size and search speed could be solved. Because of commercial acquisitions, today s (2006) RealSpeak has brought together ideas from many other systems, including the Speech Works system (itself a successor of the NextGen system), the Nuance system (a successor of Laureate) and rVoice, described below. 

CooRMAN, G., Fackrell, J., RuTTEN, R, AND CoiLE, B. V. Segment selection in the LH realspeak laboratory TTS system. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2000 (2000). 

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