june 2000 founder kevin lenzo alan w. black headquarters pittsburgh pennsylvania products cepstral text to speech website http www.cepstral.com cepstral is a provider of speech synthesis technology and services . it was founded in june 2000 by leading scientists from carnegie mellon university including the computer scientists kevin lenzo and alan w. black . it is a privately held corporation with headquarters in pittsburgh pennsylvania . the company provides rapid delivery of state of the art speech synthesis applications on a broad range of platforms from the smallest hand held devices to the largest centralized servers . 1 the company primarily produces synthetic voices to be used in telephony systems 2 mobile applications desktop applications and with other tts software such as open source festival . 3 cepstral s technology was in the south park episode cr me fraiche as the voice of a piece of voice assisted exercise equipment . 4 see also edit cepstrum kevin lenzo alan w. black speech synthesis references edit cepstral text to speech . cepstral.com . retrieved november 6 2011 . adam boretz . voice elements integrates cepstral tts . speechtechmag.com . retrieved november 6 2011 . cepstral text to speech . cepstral.com . retrieved november 6 2011 . 1 dead link external links edit the cepstral website this united states software corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cepstral company & oldid 651855360 categories software companies based in pennsylvaniaunited states software company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from november 2011use mdy dates from november 2011all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 march 2015 at 00 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view