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Modular Messaging features
November 2004
Avaya Modular Messaging Concepts and
Planning Guide
5-9
Text-to-speech conversion capability
Modular Messaging provides a licensed speech synthesis software so that
subscribers can hear the envelope and subject information of messages
and text names over the telephone using a computer-generated spoken
voice.
Modular Messaging makes use of e-mail readers for text-to-speech (TTS)
conversion. TTS is also used for name confirmation when a recorded
name is not available.
Multilingual text-to-speech
Subscribers of Modular Messaging—Exchange and Modular
Messaging—Domino can also hear the contents of their corporate e-mail
messages over the telephone, by virtue of TTS conversion.
Organizations that receive e-mail in more than one language can enable
multilingual TTS. Multilingual TTS identifies the language of e-mail
messages and reads them in that language. For more information, see
Table 1-1 on page 1-5.
Modular Messaging supports the following TTS engines:
! ScanSoft RealSpeak Telephony 3.5 for all languages that
Modular Messaging supports.
Modular Messaging provides ScanSoft RealSpeak Telephony 3.5
as the default TTS engine. All new installation of Modular
Messaging will provide support only to the ScanSoft RealSpeak
Telephony 3.5 engine.
! Fonix DECTalk for English conversions and ScanSoft RealSpeak
TTS3000 for all non-English conversions
Modular Messaging continues to support Fonix DECTalk and
ScanSoft RealSpeak TTS3000 for customers that are upgrading
from Unified Messenger 5.0. However, Avaya recommends
ScanSoft RealSpeak Telephony 3.5 for high quality TTS
conversion.
! Microsoft TTS, for English conversions only.
Microsoft TTS is a simple TTS software used only to test the
system configuration