This post is not related to Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad.
But I would like to share this fun of the new acapela.tv website.
Play with the funny characters, post the e-card and your creation on facebook or youtube …
Enjoy!
acapela.tv, the sparkling, talking portal developed by Acapela Group to showcase lively and original ways to use speech synthesis, is now growing up!
The new version of acapela.tv offers the millions of fans who daily share talking messages the possibility to create their own account and participate even more fully in the captivating, talkative acapela.tv experience.
Join the community and enjoy acapela.tv’s talkative, animated world!
Acapela.tv offers the Internet user the possibility to make smart and free use of Acapela text to speech, which transforms written text into spoken words in real time. The Internet user types in his/her own words – in any of the 23 languages available – which are then instantly vocalized by Acapela. A single click brings the message to life and gives it meaning, as immediate and effective as the spoken word.
Created in November 2008, acapela.tv has already generated over 50 million talking e-cards and talkative games which have been sent and received around the globe, from Greenland to Chile. Today acapela.tv is THE place to go to make smart use of speech applications online, and have fun with friends.
The new FREE registration feature opens up a new world of amusing and useful possibilities. The creation of a personal and private page allows each user to share their lively, creative talking messages with friends, keep track of their activity on acapela.tv, easily manage a friend list and share messages on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
This new chapter in the acapela.tv story has been written and created to thank the millions of users already acquainted with acapela.tv. Newcomers are invited to actively participate, play the new games and meet the new characters that will regularly move into acapela.tv village.
Meet the new residents of Acapela village!
The acapela.tv sprites, the joyful gang that loves to shoot the breeze all day long using Acapela voices, will regularly welcome on board new characters and games. Visit acapela.tv now, don’t waste a second, experiment with the weather, walk with Sam or create talking cartoons with new characters.
About acapela.tv
Acapela.tv is a showcase and test playground that shares the possibilities of speech synthesis with Internet users. Its huge success and millions of addicted fans speak volumes about how far speech synthesis can add audible value to your content and messages and help companies develop their brand awareness.
Acapela.tv is brought to you by Acapela Group, the leading expert and inventor in Voice technology.
Creaceed, the belgian company specialized in Mac OS and iOS products (Vocalia, Prizmo) have finally released their new application: Prizmo for iPhone. This is an all-in-one scanning and OCR application with a very large number of wonderful features: Business cards or bills scanning and processing, Whiteboards capture, optical character recognition (OCR) of texts, translation, image processing and of course … Text to Speech.
We’ve released an official update of our Text-to-Speech SDK.
This new minor release addresses these issues:
No more need to update to iOS 4.1 beta in order to use our simulator libraries with the iPhone 4 simulator. We’ve found a way to solve this problem, and Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.102 is now working also with the iPhone 4 simulator of iOS 4.0x !!!
Some bug fixes with user dictionaries
Some bug fixes with word synchronization
The full 1.102 package is only for iOS 4.0 and higher. If you are still using the old version of iPhone SDK (it means XCode 3.2.2 and below), you have to install the old 1.100 package and apply a specific library patch.
Creaceed, the belgian company specialized in Mac OS and iOS products (Vocalia, Prizmo) have released the second preview video of their upcoming new application: Prizmo for iPhone.
As I told you 3 weeks ago, there is an incompatibility issue between our libraries and the iPhone 4 simulator of iOS 4 SDK.
However, iPad Simulator (iPhone OS 3.2 SDK) and devices versions (iPhone 2/3G/3Gs/4 – iPod Touch V1/2/3 – iPad running iPhone OS 3.2 or iOS 4.0) was working fine.
I’m glad to announce that Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.101 is now fully compatibe with the new iOS 4.1 SDK beta 1, available for registered iPhone developers since 14th of July 2010.
We cannot share more information about this beta 1 SDK version as this version is still under NDA. But as soon as you update to this beta and XCode 3.2.4, you will be able to test our SDK with the iPhone 4 simulator.
PS: Don’t forget to update to 1.101 version of our SDK is you want to update to iOS 4 SDK and further.
We are glad to welcome 2 new customer apps into our gallery.
Assistive Chat
Assistive Chat is a affordable AAC App in English for iPad, catered to people with difficulty in speech.
Major features are
Word Prediction to minimize the keystrokes required
Adaptive learning of new vocabulary
Portrait or landscape
and of course, 3 great Acapela English Voices
Joggers and Joggers Black
Joggers (and the “black” version Joggers Black), are 2 useful apps for sport lovers.
Uses GPS to record and analyze your course during outside sport activity.
During the session, JOGGERS can display:
- Chronometer
- Instant and medium speed + evolution of instant speed
- Calorie consumption
- Covered distance
- Course displayed on a map + Friends present in the area
- …
Then your sessions are saved on our website www.joggers-online.com so you can consult, analyse and share them.
You can purchage French or English Acapela voice pack by inAppPurchase, to extend the functionality of Joggers and transform this apps into a personal coach.
Thanks to all participants to the first Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad webinars (30th of June 2010 for the French webinar, 1st of July 2010 for the English one).
These webinars were about the basics of Text-to-speech and how to integrate quickly Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad into your application.
The topics were:
Introduction to Acapela Group
Introduction to Text to Speech Technology
Description of Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad SDK
API quick overview and live demo of a simple application
Q&A
The slides are now available in the documentation section:
Webinars for iPhone/iPad developers:
Create talkative apps and bring a smiling voice to your interface!
Reminder: Don’t forget to register to our 2 first webinars (one in French, the following in English) for iPhone and iPad developers.
Register to join one of our 30 minutes webinars: >> In French/en francais on June 30th at 10 am CET – Click here to register >> In English on July 1st at 3 pm CET – Click here to register
This monday, Apple released the brand new iOS 4 operating system, for iPhone 3G, 3Gs and iPod Touch V2 and V3…and of course, the new iPhone 4!
The iOS 4 version for iPad should be available this fall.
iOS 4 and iOS 4 SDK are the new name of the former iPhone OS (and iPhone OS SDK). Indeed, iPhone OS was a bit too “iPhone” oriented, as the Apple mobile operating system is also used on iPad and iPod Touch (and later an Apple TV based also on iOS???).
iOS 4 contains a lot of new features (folders, iBook store …). But the multi-tasking is probably the most important aspect of iOS 4 for the community of Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad developers. Indeed, it will allow you to create wonderful speech-powered applications able to run in background and play synthesized text to users!
Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.100 is fully compatible with iOS 4 SDK on devices (tested on iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPod Touch and iPad)
However, for simulator, there is 2 important points that you have to know:
iOS 4 SDK comes with a new XCode 3.2.3. As Apple changed the runtime of iPad and iPhone simulator, you will probably have some linking errors if you are using the regular 1.100 static libraries. In the download section, you will find a patch for XCode 3.2.3
With this patch and XCode 3.2.3, you will be able to link on simulator with the iPad simulator (iPhone OS 3.2) and the new iPhone 4 simulator (iOS 4). However, it is working only on iPad simulator (crash on iPhone 4 simulator). This is a known issue of this simulator, and we are working on it to find a workaround. If you need to use our SDK on iOS 4, you will have to do it directly on device. (contact us for buying the SDK and obtain the devices libs)
