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title: "/4/ Client engagements"
url: https://talknowledgy.com/clients
description: "Client engagement records for Talknowledgy speech technology consulting across product, research and telephony organisations."
published: 2026-05-07
updated: 2026-05-07
---

# /4/ Client engagements

Published 2026-05-07

Chapter /4/ - engagement records for sixteen organisations.

## Engagement records

### Apple01

Specified architectural tradeoffs and voice selection for MacInTalk Pro 2, UK English localization, dictionary creation, voice recording, and international comparison of text fields in five European languages.

### Blackwell's Publishers02

Technical reviewer for the book The Sounds of the World's Languages.

### Centigram Communications03

British English script evaluation and localization, with voice talent for voice messaging instructional software.

### Compaq / Digital Equipment04

Directed advanced phonetic and linguistic research and development for text-to-speech synthesis, DECtalk products, UK English synthesis, and German and Spanish components.

### FileMaker / Claris05

Language and internationalization consulting across 20 languages and dialects, including competitive product research for FileMaker International Engineering.

### Fastv.com06

Integrated speech input-output with streamed live broadcast media using natural language.

### Fonix07

Vice President for Strategic Technology, covering multilingual text-to-speech, natural language research, talking agents, and team leadership for language experts.

### General Magic08

Evaluation of voice user interface design and phonetic modules for MyTalk and Portico products and services.

### Interval Research09

Linguistic and phonetic specification for a computer music composition interface.

### Lexicon Naming10

Linguistic evaluation of product names in multiple languages and psycholinguistic features of orthographic and script characters.

### Oxford University Press11

Phonetic expert and voice recording talent for ESL pronunciation materials, on-camera presenter for Ada training, and entry writer for Speech Synthesis in the International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics.

### Panasonic12

Specified acoustic phonetic, prosodic, and phonemic components for US English female speech synthesis using a parallel rule-based synthesizer.

### Philips / Voice Control Systems13

Director of Language Development for speech recognition research, CTI receptionist interface design, and Latin American Spanish phonetic documentation.

### Sun Microsystems14

Specified architecture and linguistic components for seven-language speech synthesis in the SunSoft TTS system and evaluated API extensions.

### Telia / Infovox15

British English text-to-speech design and evaluation for a parallel rule-based speech synthesizer.

### Unisys / PulsePoint Communications16

Voice messaging design and recording, British English script localization, and international comparison of voicemail instructions in six languages.