Toshiba Strata CIX Developer's Guide

TTS is the term for converting text to computer-generated speech. It enables selected information 
from a computer database or e-mail messages to be read back to users.

The TTS/Email Feature Group enables e-mail messages to be read back to users via the Telephone 
User Interface (TUI). The TTS/Email Feature Group requires the Media Application Server be 
equipped with the UM Feature Group and an e-mail password set.

Stratagy ES TTS/Email Feature Group employs the ScanSoft ETI-Eloquence™ TTS system. ETI-
Eloquence is a Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) compliant system from 
ScanSoft®.     

With the TTS/Email Feature Group, individual mailbox users that have e-mail addresses can have 
their e-mail messages read to them. Each mailbox can be configured independently to query any 
e-mail service compatible with SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 for messages. If messages are present, voice 
mail announces how many e-mail messages there are and if any of them contain attachments. 

This gives users that do not have immediate access to their local network, the Internet, or even a 
computer, the ability to check for important e-mail messages from anywhere in the world. All that 
is required is a telephone.

The TTS feature is a host-based application. TTS uses the Media Application Server’s resident 
processor to provide the processing power required, no additional speech-related hardware is 
required. This Feature Group includes the first two channels and has a maximum capacity of four 
channels of TTS that can be invoked simultaneously. 

The following requirements apply for TTS:

a license (part number MAS-FG-TTS-ETI) for the feature group must be purchased through the 
Toshiba FYI site at 

. Once you have purchased the license, follow the 

detailed instructions in 

 to activate the license.

ScanSoft ETI-Eloquence software

The TTS provides up to eight channels of TTS resources.