Sakrament has announced that one of the leading non-state owned Russian TV Network company TNT has selected its TTS Engine to use in the TV reality-show.
Minsk, Belarus - November 15, 2003 - Sakrament company, the leading software developer in the sphere of speech recognition and text-to-speech (TTS) technologies for the Russian language, announced today that TNT TV Network has selected its TTS Engine to use in the TV reality-show. TNT is among the first in the World and the first in Russia's TV Network Company has begun using TTS technologies in its TV programs.
TNT has placed an order for creating an exclusive TTS voice from samples of well-known Russian speaker for further use jointly with Sakrament text-to-speech (TTS) Engine in its reality-show. TTS Engine is used in the TV show as an electronic show presenter, who takes an active part in the dialogue with the reality-show participants.
About TNT Television network
The Russian, non-state owned television network ÒNÒ is a the television network of a national scale, whose programs broadcast across five time zones on over 270 regional television broadcasting stations.
The total potential audience of the network from Kaliningrad up to Vladivostok comes up to 80 million persons and the number of cities for broadcasting has exceeded 530.
The signal of ÒNÒ is distributed across 65 regions of the Russian Federation. Announcement of ÒNÒ covers all of Russia's largest cities. Over 270 independent regional broadcasting companies work in cooperation with TNT.
The concept of the television network ÒNÒ recognizes that while becoming a significant creative potential, the regional TV at the same time does not have sufficient stable financing, a balanced program policy as well as the newest technological facilities (particularly digital). All these elements are necessary for a successful construction of modern TV, and are offered by the network to its partners.
