NovaSpeech LLC was founded in 2004 for the purpose of developing next-generation speech technologies and related educational materials. The company is headed by Dr. Susan Hertz.

Building on linguistic and perceptual speech models developed by Dr. Hertz and her collaborators over some thirty years, NovaSpeech is currently developing exciting new cutting-edge technologies for speech synthesis. In the longer term, we plan to apply our powerful models to improve other areas of speech processing as well, including speech encoding, automated speech analysis, speech recognition, and speech splicing. In general, our work is based on a knowledge-based approach and a set of core innovations for which the company is seeking patents.

Our research and development projects build on our team's extensive experience and expertise in multi-language and multi-voice speech synthesis, signal processing, and other areas, as described more fully on our People page.