Tux Droid, the smart talking penguin designed by Kysoh for the Linux community, speaks with Acapela speech synthesis.Tux Droid is a wireless programmable robot specifically designed at the beginning for the Linux platform.
This smart companion can flap his wings, dance around, talk, blink his eyes, and all the other stuff you can imagine.Thanks to Acapela tones, Tux speaks and can talk to you to pass on messages, emails, info such as weather forecasts, sports bulletin and so on. Acapela tones voice empower Tux and contribute to make it a useful talking companion, interactive and funny!
“The naturalness of Acapela text to speech is a key element in turning Tux alive and give him a true personality through vocal dimension!” comments Thierry Nancy, Managing Director and co-founder from Kysoh.
The architecture is completely open, all code and datasheets are provided by Kysoh directly on their community website www.tuxisalive.com .
About Kysoh
Kysoh aimed to develop and market high tech interactive companions which 1st proof is Tux Droid. Kysoh plans to become a premiere provider of smart companions that can assist you of anything happening on your computer by opening a new window on the digital world.They plan to offer high quality, funny and unusual products integrating new technologies and dedicated to entertainment for an affordable and moderate price.
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