Archive for the ‘Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad – Developer Website News’ Category

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.

More than 50 iOS apps are using Acapela TTS!

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Education, Translation, Navigation, AAC and accessibility, productivity or fun … There is plenty of possibility to use Acapela Text-to-Speech into an app!

And more and more speech-powered apps are coming!

The 51st and the 52nd apps added into the gallery are Study Fly and Study Fly Spanish !
These new applications from theraTech Solutions (makers of Talking Flashcards).

Study Fly accesses over 3 million free flashcards sets at Quizlet.com covering every possible subject and speaks it, so you can study on the fly, in English or Spanish.

Available voices

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Just a quick note to inform that there is a new (and often requested) page in the documentation section: the list of languages and voices available in Acapela TTS for iPhone and iPad 1.100.

Presentation slides of webinars

Friday, July 9th, 2010

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:

The live demo description can be found here: Quick Start: How to add TTS in your app (“HelloWorld TTS app”)

Other webinars are in preparation with more advanced topics like audio management, iOS4 features, inAppPurchase implementation etc ….

If you have other suggestions, don’t hesitate to add a comment.

Good App!

Jean-Michel

Reminder: Our First Webinars for iPhone/iPad developers

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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 CETClick here to register
>> In English on July 1st at 3 pm CETClick here to register

More information on our corporate website: http://www.acapela-group.com/webinars-for-iphone-ipad-developers-create-talkative-apps-and-bring-a-smiling-voice-to-your-interface-2200-speech-synthesis.html

Jean-Michel Reghem
Developer Solutions Product Manager

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.

Welcome to this new Acapela website for iPhone and iPad developers

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Acapela-for-iphone.com is a new website especially created for iPhone and iPad developers who want to bring a vocal dimension to their applications, by adding our really natural text to speech voices.

This is our second website for developers, following Voice As A Service acapela-vaas.com

Both sites are part of the new acapela-for-developers.com portal, which will soon be extended to include other TTS SDK.

Follow us on twitter @Acapela_iPhone to keep informed of all changes to this site.