Acapela Alyona Voice Engine

In July this year, Acapela , the developers of the popular Russian-language voice module Nikolai, released a new Russian, female voice engine, which was called Alena. It works with a frequency of 22 kHz. According to the quality of the synthesized speech, Alena is far ahead of Nikolai, the voice timbre and intonation, according to users, are more pleasant than that of the Katerina engine from ScanSoft RealSpeak.

In my opinion, the version is slightly damp, which is probably due to an attempt to get ahead of the company LOQUENDO in the battle of the giants in the Russian field , which also intends to release the Russian voice engine in 2008 (table on the bottom right).

Along with the engine comes Lexicon Manager - a dictionary editor that allows you to change the pronunciation of words both alphabetic and phonetically. You can download the

demo version on the official

ps website. In this forum you can find decent enough dictionaries for Alena.

Upd. An example of the voice of Alena.