Acapela Multimedia

Add a voice-mate to better learn, share, progress...

Acapela Multimedia translates any text into a clear and natural voice.

Language learning and e-learning, edutainment, talking characters, proof reading and productivity tools, talking web, online talking assistance and agents can all benefit from the assets of voice solutions to build up a new relationship with the end-user, on both PC and MAC environments.

Using voice synthesis, which translates any written information into speech, you invent a new relationship between your application and the users.

The voice becomes the user’s team-mate, allowing them to make better use of the numerous possibilities your application provides, freeing them from screen and keyboard dependence and inspiring new interactions.

Speech solutions are the right answer to developing efficient and user friendly interactivity, for learning, creativity, discovery, leisure or working purposes.

- Give a voice to your application and enhance its interactivity by adding high quality vocal feedback

- Create stimulating products including human sounding voices

- Take advantage of synchronization features to sync speech with lip movements and other graphical clues

- Make your product fully available and accessible to people with difficulties in reading or seeing text

- Give your users an eye-free experience by not requiring them to look at the text to access information.

- Multilingual: 24 languages already available

- Choice of voices available for most languages

- Both female and male voices available for most languages: 39 HQ voices and 29 HD voices

- Several APIs available to simplify the integration process

- Several programming languages supported to provide maximum freedom

- Easy integration into your installation package

- Available for both Windows and Mac OSX

- Possibility to edit pronunciations for abbreviations and exceptions

- Wide scalability

HQ TTS: very High Quality Text To Speech resulting in a very natural and pleasant-sounding voice which has never been closer to the human speaker.

HD TTS : very High Density Text To Speech off ering the best density/quality compromise of the market.

	HQ TTS		HD TTS
	F	M	F	M
Arabic
Czech
Danish
Dutch (B)
Dutch (NL)
English (UK)
English (US)
Faeroese
Finnish
French
French (Canadian)
German
Greek
Icelandic
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish
Spanish (North America)
Swedish
Turkish

> Text Input:

Windows Edition: Unlimited text in Windows ASCII encodings or Unicode 16.

Mac OSX Edition: Mac 8 bits encodings (Mac Roman ...) and Windows ASCII encodings.

Support of tagged texts.

> Lexicons:

Support of user lexicons

Lexicon Editor for creating and editing user lexicons

> Synchronization support:

Lip sync, Word sync, and bookmarks

> Voice properties:

Speech rate, Volume, Reading modes (sentence, word, spelling), equaliser, pause length, and pitch (for HD voices only)

> Audio format:

PCM audio, 16 bits linear, 22 kHz. (Windows and Mac), AIFF (Mac only)

> APIs:

Windows Edition: SAPI 4.0a, SAPI 5.1b / 5.3, ActiveX and proprietary APIs (BabTTS API and NSC API)

Mac OSX Edition: Apple Speech Synthesis Manager and proprietary APIs (BabTTS API and NSC API)

> Development languages:

Windows Edition: C, C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, and Delphi

Mac OSX Edition: C, C++, Objective C

Supported developer tool for Mac OSX: XCode 2.1 and higher

> Documentation

Complete documentation, Sample code