Fonix claims that DECtalk is the smallest footprint, full-featured, multilanguage text-to-speech engine in the industry. It offers nine voices -- four female, four male, and one child -- and seven languages including US and UK English, Castilian, and Latin American Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Version 4.6.4 supports a wide array of hardware platforms including ARM 7 and 9, TI OMAP, Intel x86 and XScale, and Renesas SH3/4, among others.

The new version allows up to seven languages to be active in less than 2 MB of memory, according to Fonix. The small footprint allows mobile devices to incorporate multiple languages. Additionally, with resident support for multiple languages, devices can change languages in mid stream, if necessary, the company says.

In addition to Windows Mobile 5.0 and .NET CF, DECtalk supports Windows Mobile 2003, Windows CE 3.0 and 4.x, Windows XP and XP Embedded, Linux, and Symbian.

DECtalk version 4.6.4 is available immediately.

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