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:''For the Canadian media company, see S-VOX.'' SVOX is an embedded speech technology company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. SVOX was acquired by Nuance Communications in 2011. Company’s products included Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Speech Dialog systems, with customers mostly being manufacturers and system integrators in automotive and mobile device industries. ==History== SVOX was started in 2000 by researchers at Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) and first focused exclusively on Speech Output (TTS) solutions for automotive industry. In 2002 Siemens Mobile Acceleration (today's smac|partners GmbH) invested into SVOX.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100002664/100021140/erste-investition-in-der-schweiz-siemens-mobile-acceleration-investiert-in-den-schweizer-text-to )〕 Later, as the market for Personal Navigation Devices and smartphones developed, the company started to supply those markets as well. In 2008 SVOX released Pico, a small-footprint TTS system optimized for mobile phones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pressebox.de/pressemitteilung/svox-ag/SVOX-releases-Pico-highest-quality-sub-1-MB-Text-to-Speech-system-available/boxid/217338 )〕 In parallel, SVOX has branched into Speech Recognition and Speech Dialog. As part of that process the company acquired Professional Speech Processing Group of Siemens AG in early 2009. In 2009 SVOX made headlines with news that Google had chosen to include company’s Pico TTS solution into the 1.6 release of Android platform.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Tim )〕 In June 2011, Nuance Communications acquired SVOX.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nuance acquires SVOX )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SVOX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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