News Contents

• Meridian One Wins Further Order from US Automotive OEM
• Meridian One Wins 2nd Order from US Automotive OEM
• Meridian One Wins Major Contract with US Automotive OEM
• Meridian One Wins 2nd Contract with Intrasonics
• Meridian One Awarded Contract with Intrasonics
• Orpheus Acquired
• Meridian One Founded

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Sep 29th 2011: Meridian One Wins further Order from US Automotive OEM

Meridian One wins a further order with a major US Automotive OEM for additional software for its system for control of text-to-speech (TTS) in menu presentation and selection applications.

Feb 24th 2011: Meridian One Wins 2nd Order from US Automotive OEM

Meridian One wins a second order with a major US Automotive OEM for extensions to software for the control of text-to-speech (TTS) in menu presentation and selection applications. The client is engaged in an evaluation of speech feedback for the presentation of secondary driver information in the in-car environment.

May 5th 2010: Meridian One Wins Major Contract with US Automotive OEM

Meridian One wins an order with a major US Automotive OEM to develop software for the control of text-to-speech (TTS) in menu presentation and selection applications. The client is engaged in an evaluation of speech feedback for the presentation of secondary driver information in the in-car environment.

Meridian One was chosen to develop the software for the control of Orpheus TTS Plus and other TTS engines in the evaluation. Meridian One is also providing expertise in the operation and management of TTS resources and the manipulation of speech synthesis needed for efficient audio menu tracking.

Nov 1st 2008: Meridian One Wins 2nd Contract with Intrasonics

Meridian One wins another contract with Intrasonics Ltd Cambridge to implement improved error correction for audio transmission of hidden data sequences, suitable for conversion to real-time error correction systems in audio watermarking systems.

Mar 31st 2008: Meridian One Awarded Contract with Intrasonics Ltd. Cambridge

Meridian One wins a contract with Intrasonics Ltd Cambridge to evaluate methods of adding unobtrusively coded data to audio signals in a manner that can be successfully transmitted over links using the speech codecs in 3G phones. A successful simulation and patent arise from this project.

Aug 14th 2006: Meridian One Acquires Orpheus

Dolphin transfer all rights to Orpheus speech synthesiser to John Rye, who through Meridian One Speech, a trading name of Meridian One Consulting Ltd will further develop the TTS engine, incorporate new languages, improve interface support and make available worldwide through Internet download.

Orpheus TTS is already well known to many thousands of blind and visually impaired users of screen reading software worldwide and is renowned for the intelligibility of its synthetic voices at the fastest talking rates, a very practical benefit to TTS users in everyday work and education situations.

July 4th 2006: Meridian One Formed

John Rye founds Meridian One Consulting Ltd. Meridian One will provide software and management consultancy services to software developers and has particular expertise in speech and speech synthesis.