We have released a new version 1.304. If you are a customer and don’t get it by mail, contact your sales manager.
Click here to download Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.304 (dmg file into zip) – EVALUATION package
Evolvo is a new talking app for lazy readers, rushed users and anyone that wants to hear content rather than read.
Evolvo reads your content for you in 20 languages (EPUB,PDF,DOC,PPT,HTML,RTF, etc.).
5 High Quality Acapela voices in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish are included in the app.
Other languages are available as in- app purchase.
You can download evolvo here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/evolvo/id543469527?mt=8
Here is a small video:
We have released a new version 1.302. If you are a customer and don’t get it by mail, contact your sales manager.
Click here to download Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.302 (dmg file into zip) – EVALUATION package
Note :
Delegate method speechSynthesizer:didFinishSpeaking (without index) returns now:
Delegate method speechSynthesizer:didFinishSpeaking:textIndex: (with index) returns now:
As told last week ( http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com/1-300-and-ios6-small-issue-info-for-developers ), there were a small issue with Acapela TTS for iOS and iOS 6 beta.
This is now fixed, and we’ve released a new 1.301 version.
Evaluation package is available in the download section. Customers could contact their sales manager for the device lib (voice data doesn’t change and are identical to 1.300).
1.301 solves the following issues:
We got several reports from customers informing us that in iOS 6.0 (beta 4), the return value of our didFinishSpeaking delegate is always FALSE, even if there is no error.
- (void)speechSynthesizer:(AcapelaSpeech *)sender didFinishSpeaking:(BOOL)finishedSpeaking {}
For iOS4/5, at normal termination, argument “finishedSpeaking” is “TRUE”.
However iOS6, even if normal termination, argument “finishedSpeaking” is always “FALSE”.
If you are testing this argument to detect error, your application may have a problem when running on iOS 6.
As a workaround, you could choose to not use the return value.
We are currently validating a 1.301 SDK update that restore the correct behaviour. It should be available next week.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
A lot of press coverage in June and July about the new UK and US English children voices realized by Acapela Group in collaboration with AssistiveWare (Proloquo2Go).
These 4 voices (Josh, Ella, Rosie, Harry) are exclusively available into Proloquo2Go during 6 months. Then, they will be available for all our other customers.
Here is some really interesting posts and video compilation showing how kids TTS voices are disruptive for the AAC market.
Press and info:
Video:
Version 1.300 is finally released.
Evaluation package is updated in download area.
For existing customers, if you didn’t received a full update of voices and libraries by mail, you could contact your sales manager
Here is the new features of 1.300 new major release:
(available in hqm-ref-22kHz only, but smaller than other HQM)
(available in hqm-ref-22kHz only, but smaller than other HQM)
Hello
As you know, Acapela for iPhone 1.201 is fully compatible with iOS 5.
ARC mode (the new memory management system, introduce with iOS 5) is also compatible with our SDK.
However, there is some adaptation needed for using our SDK with ARC mode
This class, available in source code, is written in classic retain/release manual reference counting.
In order to use it with ARC, you could either remove all retain/release in this code + deleting the dealloc function, or compile the file with -fno-objc-arc compiler flag (see http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com/documentation-quick-start-how-to-add-tts-in-your-app – Step 5b)
In order to have a correct behaviour of MyInteruptionListener, you have to add a small keyword in out TTSDemo sample code and documentation
(Thanks to Non Umemoto, developer of Lisgo app )
In non ARC mode, the implementation listener is implemented like this:
void MyInterruptionListener(void *inClientData, UInt32 inInterruptionState) {
AcapelaSpeech* anAcapelaSpeech = *(AcapelaSpeech**)inClientData;
if (inInterruptionState == kAudioSessionBeginInterruption) {
[anAcapelaSpeech setActive:NO];
status = AudioSessionSetActive(NO);
}
if (inInterruptionState == kAudioSessionEndInterruption) {
status = AudioSessionSetActive(YES);
[anAcapelaSpeech setActive:YES];
}
}
In ARC mode, you have to bridge the inClientData in order to use it:
void MyInterruptionListener(void *inClientData, UInt32 inInterruptionState) { AcapelaSpeech* anAcapelaSpeech =(__bridge id) (*(void **) inClientData);if (inInterruptionState == kAudioSessionBeginInterruption) { [anAcapelaSpeech setActive:NO]; AudioSessionSetActive(NO); } if (inInterruptionState == kAudioSessionEndInterruption) { AudioSessionSetActive(YES); [anAcapelaSpeech setActive:YES]; } }
If you have other trick or incompatibilities with ARC, don’t hesitate to tell us.
We have released for all customers a cumulative patch of some small fixes that we did since the 1.201 version.
Customers could download it from the same ftp where they download previously the 1.201 universal libraries.
If you have problem to download it, don’t hesitate to contact me.
List of bugs fixed are:
This version solves also some other small issues …
- warning with visibility hidden + impossibility to use ogg vorbis static library into your apps
- removing Thumb compilation mode (in order to solve problems with customers using Unity Framework)
- some hang in seldom case
I would like also to inform you that the next major version 1.300 will soon enter in QA and external beta test.
Mindex International Ltd have released a new app using Acapela TTS voices.
After the successful vBookz Free AudioBooks app, that reads your endless ePub books out loud, here is vBookz PDF Reader !
Features of vBookz PDF Reader:
These features are described on the vBookz product page.
Jean-Michel Reghem
Developer Solutions Product Manager
Mons - Belgium
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