Looking for TTS developments and improvements for our digital educational platform

Short summary Improvement on "Text-to-Speech (TTS)" feature

Full description Language school concept for children from the age of one, based on a differentiated and innovative methodology. Our very own method, Kids&Us Natural English, is based on the natural process of mother tongue acquisition and this is why we treat our students as potential native speakers. Children are introduced to the new language through stories with charismatic characters in everyday familiar situations. Our network of franchises is in full expansion. Over 157,000 children in Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Andorra, Mexico, Japan and Vietnam are learning English in one of our 570 Kids&Us language schools. Our online platform has a virtual agent, the Kids&Us companion, which interacts with students, helping and guiding them throughout their learning path. Our personalised learning platform, among other functionalities and for certain specific age groups, incorporates a Text to Speech (TTS) system as the basis for interaction with the student. We are interested in seeing proposals that allow us to evolve the system towards a solution with a "more natural" voice system that allows us to apply different profiles (children's voices, different characters and moods, ...) that can be personalised and adapted to the age of the student. We want to validate and test proposals that can be integrated into our platform. APPLY FOR THIS CHALLENGE HERE: https://ise-challenges-2023.b2match.io/participants/6#498302

Technical Specification or Expertise Sought Seeking experts in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and in TTS.

Contact / source: NEXT EEN Widgets (europa.eu)