Acapela gives voice to France's leading business daily

Les Echos Newspaper's first audio service reads out all the business and financial news. Acapela Sayso, the new technology developed by leading TTS supplier Acapela Group, has been chosen by Atos Origin to vocalise the new audio* service for Les Echos.
Launched on 10th October, the new service reads France's premier business on-line content (lesechos.fr) in real time over the phone.

Business and financial news can now be accessed by phone 24 hours a day, while the Sayso technology updates information in real time. For the first time, users can obtain up-to-date audio bulletins with a voice quality which has never been so close to a pre-recorded voice.

The service enables callers to hear the paper's front page stories in brief or in full and to have detailed information on a given company or sector. It also gives real time access to stock market information and to quick updates on prime financial news. In today's business world where critical economic data changes so fast hour by hour, Les Echos' audio service provides the linchpin to keeping abreast, wherever you are, at any time.

Atos Origin's multimedia department is Les Echos' partner in the design, development and operation of its on-line services and supports Les Echos TTS and voice recognition technologies.

But rather than read our version of the event, why not try the service for yourself and see how Acapela Sayso reads the day's current business news by simply dialling 0892 707 700*

Not only does it sound more natural, but Acapela Sayso also has the richest prosody yet, capable of communicating intelligent meaning as never before.

Its prosody is way ahead of the monotonous tones proposed by the best TTS systems on the market today.Acapela Sayso's unmatched level of prosody opens up a vast range of new fields of applications previously unimaginable with TTS, due to the lack of vocal quality (e-marketing, CRM, virtual agents and speakers, etc.).

Acapela Sayso is already available to be integrated into the company's tried and tested industrial product solutions for Telecom and Multimedia markets, Speech CUBE, NETworks CUBE and Speech Engine for applications such as unified messaging, voice portals, email reading, etc.

* Call available only from France available 24/7 over corded or mobile phone, 0.34 euro/minute.