Portfolio - Information Technology (IT)

Examples - Information Technology (IT)

Telecommunications

SendaSAM allows users to type a free form SMS message on their mobile phone and have automatically converted into speech in realistic voices that are fun and interesting, using advanced speech synthesis techniques. The SendaSAM server then rings the user’s friend up. They then hear the user’s SMS. Users can include sound effects and switch voices anywhere in their message

SendaSAM

For	Famoice Technoloy
Role	Inventor, product manager and lead developer
Highlights	Enthusiastically received during pre-marketing trials. Purpose built as a viral propagation product. 4000 messages generated during 4 week trial period, from a seed of 100 people and a viral uptake rate of 1 new user for every 4.3 messages. See the *Directed Innovation Steps™*

FootySpeak converts statements in a simple to use input language into natural, conversational english which is automatically synthesised in the real voice of the team's coach. FootySpeak reports are prepared by coaching assistance staff using a mobile phone via SMS as pre-match reports. The FootySpeak audio message is then automatically broadcast to subscribers via the SAM platform.

FootySpeak

For	Famoice Technoloy
Role	Inventor and developer
Highlights	Developed techniques for building realistic limited domain voice synthesisers of recognisable personalities. Developed natural language processing techniques including idiomatic translation and emotion modifiers. Produced very realistic audio messages

Short Audio Messages (SAMs) are audio greeting cards in personality voices that are delivered directly to mobile phones. User’s can select a wide variety of content either from a web-site, or from codes in an SMS message.

Short Audio Messages

For

Famoice Technoloy

Role

Co-inventor, co-developer

Highlights

The implementation of this product included the development of a large scale, distributed, scalable architecture, for the ordering, delivery and management tracking of high volumes of SAMs

Also, several other projects in confidential stages of development