Acapela for iPhone:
Multilingual speech synthesis available for iPhone applications.

Acapela text to speech, now available for iPhone, allows developers to create vocal applications, in 18 languages and 33 voices.

Acapela Group, the European leader in vocal solutions, launches Acapela for iPhone, a product designed to offer to iPhone community developers a High Quality speech engine specifically adapted to meet their needs.

Applications designed for iPhone and iPod Touch use groundbreaking technologies such as the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. With Acapela for iPhone, developers can now easily add a vocal dimension, in 18 languages.

Acapela Group makes available a portfolio of 33 voices to voice empower content and contribute to an ever more intuitive use of applications designed for the Appstore.

Acapela for iPhone  has been designed both for developers used to ‘mobile’ environment software and Mac programmers. 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 and iPod Touch.

Games, educational programmes, finance, health and fitness, productivity, social networking, etc; whatever the application, Acapela text to speech naturally enriches the visual and touch-sensitive interface with pleasant and natural voices.

This SDK, dedicated to the iPhone environment, strengthens the position of the Acapela Group which has closely worked for more than 10 years with those involved in the Apple environment to deliver high quality multilingual speech solutions and ease access to information for everyone. Recognised and widely used by those involved in the Mac environment for the multimedia and Accessibility application fields, Acapela voices now accompany Apple solutions with Acapela for  iPhone.

Click on this link to watch short demo videos of Acapela for iPhone.

Technical specifications

- API in Objective C
- Word synchronisation available
- 18 languages - 33 voices HQ
- 2 voice formats available : LF* (~25Mb/voice) and HQ**
- Available end 2008

(*low footprint - **High Quality)

Acapela for iPhone product webpage