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Bethesda Softworks, Rockville USA - licence PA Preview for placeholder dialog across a number of titles. 15th May 2010

Creative Assembly, Brisbane Australia - licence PA Commentator for a soon to be announced cross-platform Sports Title. 25th April 2010

EA Sports, Vancouver Canada - The FIFA team licence PA Commentator.
30th March 2010

DICE In Stockholm, Sweden License PA Studio for cross platform and cross game use within their FrostByte (tm) engine to harness the power of dialog creation. 15th March 2010

NINJA THEORY in Cambridge UK License PA Preview for use on one of their forthcoming cross platform titles generating placeholder dialog. 4th March 2010

Phonetic Arts Launches PA Preview at GDC 2010 1st March 2010

A new application that enables game developers to create placeholder dialogue automatically. read more

Phonetic Arts Launches PA Commentator at GameFest 2nd February 2010

Dynamic Speech to Bring Sports Game Commentary to Liferead more

A.C.R.O.N.Y.M in Vancouver, Canada License PA Studio for use on their forthcoming title on Wii ‘Total Wipeout USA’ due for release in 2010. 15th January 2010

How close are we to real-time generated speech?: Develop Magazine 5th January 2010

Phonetic Arts reveals its latest weapon in the fight against pre-recorded audio read more

Making Computer Games Articulate: Financial Times 29th November 2009

Relocating to the Cambridge science cluster has proved fruitful for the founders of Phonetic Arts, an early stage technology company read more

Braben Appointment to Phonetic Arts Board  11th August 2009

Phonetic Arts, the creator of innovative new technology that generates rich, expressive dynamic speech in computer games today announced the appointment of award winning, game industry legend David Braben to its board of directors read more

Phonetic Arts opens new headquarters in Cambridge UK  8th June 2009

Phonetic Arts, the computer games speech solutions provider, today announced it had opened its new world headquarters at the Westbrook Centre in Cambridge UK read more

Phonetic Arts, the computer games speech solutions provider, today announced that Steve Tyson had joined as Vice President of Worldwide Sales  1st March 2009

Steve has spent the last 23 years working with Game developers, joining us from a highly successful 4 year stint when building the European business of ‘Gamebryo’ for Emergent Game technologies, prior to this he ran the European businesses for both Metrowerks Codewarrior and NXN alienbrain after having established his own 3D business AURA in the 90’s that focussed on the Games and Film industries
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IQ capital invests in technology developing speech synthesis in computer games  
7th October 2008

IQ Capital, the UK centric early stage venture fund, announces that it has led a Series A funding round into Phonetic Arts Limited, alongside several prominent business angels including games industry veteran David Braben and speech technology expert Professor Steve Young. Phonetic Arts, founded in late 2006 in Cambridge read more