Hipervoice, due out December 1, is the latest voice synthesis development kit specially developed for PlayStation 2 game developers. Based on NTT-IT's text-to-speech synthesis technology, the new middleware application offers high-quality compositions, and enables game characters to speak in many different ways.

The product delivers smooth operation on SCEI's DTL-T10000 game development tool. It includes approximately 200,000 Japanese word entries, and is priced at 300,000 yen ($2,727).