NeoSpeech Inc. was an American company that specialized in text-to-speech (TTS) software for embedded devices, mobile, desktop, and network/server applications.
NeoSpeech was founded by two speech engineers, Lin Chase and Yoon Kim, in Fremont, California, US, in 2002.
Stephen Hawking was briefly a NeoSpeech TTS user in 2004,[1] but soon returned to using his iconic DECtalk voice synthesizer[2] since he identified with it so strongly.
NeoSpeech uses Unit Selection Synthesis (USS), which utilizes large databases of recorded sound segments to create synthesized speech.
[15] Languages include US and UK variants of English, Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, with a variety of male and female voices.