With the improvement in quality of human-like voices generated by text-to-speech synthesis engines, new applications and uses are emerging. This session reveals how you can put speech synthesis to work in new ways. Learn how one company uses a synthesised voice as its brand. Discover how Interactive Digital Assistants created by integrating synthesised voice with an avatar can be accessed both via desktop computers and mobile devices. Find out how Braille can be generated from text, making voice dialogues available to visually impaired users.

Learn how synthetic voices can be personalized to sound like a specific person, and what new applications can be enabled by personalized synthetic voices.