According to scientific researches, usage of text-to-speech systems on mobile devices is a wonderful opportunity not only to save time but also eyesight. Screens of most mobile units do not have sizes suitable for reading. Moreover, sometimes user does not have possibility to read information from screen (for example, while driving or walking). In such cases text voicing system (speech synthesis), installed to user's mobile device is indispensable. This is "Sakrament Teller PDA Edition”! “Sakrament Teller MS Smartphone Edition” – software package which is intended for reading on screen or listening throw loud speaker or headphones of text documents on mobile devices designed for Microsoft PocketPC. Except application Teller software package includes synthesis system for Russian and/or English speech (depending on set of delivery) with several voices (depending on set of delivery). Original speech synthesis system for Russian and English developed by Sakrament (Sakrament Text-To-Speech (TTS) MS Smartphone Edition) allows to convert any electronic document to sound. Sakrament TTS Engine MS Smartphone Edition includes powerfull procedures of text processing (abbreviation and abridgement decoding, stress marking, digits-to-text conversion, words correction and so on ) and sound processing (smoothing algorithms, speed and pitch change) - that allows to achieve convinient speech quality for users. Sakrament TTS Engine MS Smartphone Edition is "natural" voice system - it means that natural speaker records are used. Main advantage of Sakrament TTS Engine MS Smartphone Edition is modest requirements to resources that allows to operate even on low-power mobile units Main features of “Sakrament Teller MS Smartphone Edition”: * Reading out text by any of the available voices in two languages (Russian and/or English – depends on set of delivery) and automatically switch to the next page * Selection of the appropriate voice. Pitch, speed and volume settings * Reading out text located in clipboard (Clipboard) * Reading out an arbitrary text * Reading out guidance (functions Speak, Pause, Resume, Stop) * Editing of Russian language stresses base * Work with general text and in format HTML, RB (RocketBook), RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC, TCR. Format will be defined automatically and text will be displayed without formatting (for instance, if formatting is carried out in tags in format HTML/XML or FB2) * Work with documents, located in ZIP-archives. ZIP-archives with arbitrary catalogue structure are supported * Files in codings WIN, DOS, KOI8R, ISO, UTF8, automatically codings detection * Quick opening and work with large format text documents (more than 1 Ìb) * Saving and display of 10 last files * Page display of text with rapid access to arbitrary page * Text settings (automatic hyphenating, alignment and smart text processing, turn screen for 90, 180 and 270 degrees) * Full-screen mode * Status pane displayed current time, current page, battery charge and line progress of reading * Font and background color settings. Color schemes. Pre-installed color schemes * Font settings * Bookmarks (addition, deletion, viewing, switch to selected bookmark) * Full-blown text search * Read/unread document mark * Guidance by means of buttons of mobile device. Any action shall be appointed to buttons of mobile device * Convert texts from recognizable formats to general texts. Converted texts will be preserved * Automative saving of settings (including bookmarks, the last opened document, last reading line position and so on) During text reading from screen Teller output and format text in form mostly suitable for user (automatic hyphenating, alingment and text pre-processing, color and font schemes settings, automatic coding detection and so on). Many widespread file formats are supported by Teller (including TXT, RB, RTF, FB2, PDB/PRC, TCR, HTML/XML, only text is extracted).

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