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Meet Acapela at WWDC 2011

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Acapela Group will be present at The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the premier technical conference for developers innovating with Apple technologies, from June 6-10 in Moscone, San Francisco, California. Meet Acapela team and follow Acapela WWDC hot topics at http://twitter.com/Acapela_iPhone

If you want to schedule a short meeting with us (or simply meet during a lunch or a coffee pause), don’t hesitate to contact us through the contact form or through twitter.

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1.200 version coming soon … What’s new?

Monday, April 11th, 2011

We are in the last testing phase of the new major revision of our TTS SDK for iOS. It will be probably available at the end of this month.

Here is the list of the main features of this revision:

  • Linguistic update of all voices (bug and pronunciation fixes, voice database improvement, etc …)
  • New voices and languages!!!
    Voice Name Listen to a Sample
    Antoine (French male)
    Laia (Female)
    Rasmus (Danish Male)
    Tracy (USEnglish Female)
    Deepa (Indian English Female)
    Nizar (Arabic Male)
    NizarEng (Arabic English Male)
    Leila (Arabic Female)
    Mehdi (Arabic Male)
    Samuel (Swedish from Finland Male)

    (PS: Old Arabic Youssef male voice is removed)

  • Enhancement in API:
    • New functions: Lexicon management API (to manage user lexicons text files) with phoneme validity check
    • New textIndex parameter in queueSpeakingString function, passed to delegate when text is done, in order to make the synchronisation easier
    • New function: skipToNextText (to skip the current text and play directly the next one in text queue)
    • New function: attributesForCurrentVoice (to retrieve information about the currently loaded voice) + 5 new parameters into the returned NSArray of attributesForVoices
    • New functions: to set or get the voice shaping parameters (previously only with vct tag)
  • Voice Switching: Now possible with \vce\ tag
  • Updated TTSDemo sample code: Save/edit texts functionality + User dictionaries management added
  • A lot of bug fixes

Stay tuned!

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Connect to and enjoy www.acapela-for-iphone.com, the comprehensive, number one website for talking apps

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Moscone West, San Francisco, June 7th, 2010.

Acapela Group today is launching its brand new website, www.acapela-for-iphone.com, fully dedicated to the developer community, providing straight forward information, support and solutions to develop smart talking applications, easily.

Stay tuned with acapela-for-iphone.com!
… and learn what speech synthesis can bring to your application.
Register and join us on acapela-for-iphone.com, share the latest news, follow our topics on twitter and on the blog, access our FAQ, make direct contact with Acapela’s Product Manager, take a stroll through our Gallery to hear more about talking apps already available on the Apple Appstore and enter the vocal dimension.

Acapela TTS for iPad and iPhone SDK will add a friendly voice to your iPhone, iPad or iTouch application with a few lines of code, in 22 languages and a choice of 44 voices.

Follow us on twitter @Acapela_iPhone and meet the Acapela team at WWDC 2010, Moscone, San Francisco, June 7-11.

Key advantages of Acapela TTS for iPad and iPhone:

  • Supernatural and pleasant voices: easy integration of voices for enhanced intuitive multilingual interface (22 Languages, 44 Voices)
  • AppStore compatible pricing: royalties are based on a percentage of the selling price. Other models (inAppPurchase, etc.) are available too.
  • Two voice formats: Low Footprint 20 to 30MB/voice and High Quality Medium (40 to 250MB/voice)
  • iPod audio friendly: perfectly integrated with AudioSession, allows users to work effectively with iPod music (interrupt and resume, mix, …)
  • Multi-devices: Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad are static libraries compatible with all iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad versions, as well as the iPhone and iPad simulator on Mac OS X.
  • Easy integration: thanks to the High Level API written in Objective C, developers will be able, with a minimum of code lines, to quickly and easily integrate speech synthesis into their application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

www.acapela-for-iphone.com is part of the new acapela-for-developers.com portal, brought to you by Acapela to provide developers with the information they are looking for, quickly and efficiently.

www.acapela-vaas.com, the Acapela cloud computing service, is also part of this portal which will soon be extended to other products and solutions.

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