The voice synthesis and speech recognition systems is used in a new e-health application as part of Spain's Junta de Andalucía Government Health Service's virtual assistant.
The results achieved in those years were condensed into an audio disc at 45 rpm published in 1978, distributed in thousands of copies through the mass communication media.
The auto track, after a short spoken self-presentation of the system, contained a funny Italian version of the song Frère Jacques carried out in polyphony (a cappella) with more singing voices (MUSA could manage up to 8 synthesis channels in parallel).
This led to the creation of the first integrated circuit of "voice synthesizer" developed internally in CSELT, which was manufactured by SGS (catalog as Zilog's Z80 microprocessor's peripheral (with the code M8950).
This resulted in "ACTOR" – "The human sounding voice" – which began to have a large audience due to the number of telephone services and applications created by Loquendo related companies.
Even in collaboration with ELSAG, in 1986 was presented RIPAC (RIconoscimento PArlato Connesso), an early microprocessor aimed to perform recognition of the connected speech.
The birth of Loquendo as a company led to the development of many languages and the release of the recognizer in the form of library software for the creation of various telephony applications.
The recordings have been collected both for fixed telephone networks, as well as in moving vehicles for mobile phones and also using high quality microphones in domestic environments for consumer applications such as video games, appliances, and home automation in general.
At the same time they built a CODEC to transmit high-quality signals in spite of the 8 kHz band limit of the telephone cables, which was useful for audio and video conference applications.
In the late nineties, the development of the Internet in the form known today (hypertext resident on different servers that span the planet in one big network) led to the need to make these texts available in voice over the phone.
At the same time, the IVR – Interactive Voice Response, became increasingly popular and used hardware and software tools to quickly develop new telephony applications.
Over the years "VoxNauta" was further developed in various scalable forms: from small servers to large enterprise systems with thousands of lines and has been installed in hundreds of companies around the world.