Voice Robots and Acapela TTS answering to TV viewers

Voice Robots, a speech automation middleware manufacturer based in Germany, uses AcapelaTTS to speech enable the ASP solution installed for Legion.

Legion is a major German host and provider of audiotext services for broadcasters and media clients. TV viewers call Legion servers in response to questions asked or transmitted during programmes in order to win prizes, participate in game shows etc. These services are scheduled at prime broadcasting times, and are designed to encourage massive response and create additional revenues for broadcasters. Large peaks are handled by the platform several times a day, with a total of over 6 million calls per month.

With a full dialogue interface including both speech recognition and text to speech, Voice Robots provides high-end voice-driven servers which operate in real-time. The Legion platform consists of several Voice Robots' Robot 5 machines with a total capacity of some 2000 lines with speech recognition.
The Acapela 's high density TTS software component for Telco applications, extends the capabilities of the platform enabling flexible data output from any content source like databases and the internet on the fly.