Acapela Group acquires d-fabric to offer smart audio content production solutions to publishers

With automatic text-to-speech transcription from Acapela, publishers can easily vocalise their content in up to 25 languages and over 50 voices.

Acapela Group, the vocal solutions expert, is enriching its expertise and broadening its range of solutions with the acquisition of d-fabric, a Swedish company specialising in automatic text extraction and the processing and delivery of audio publishing. d-fabric brings to the Group an additional, complementary approach to Audio Content Management and widens the scope of services Acapela can offer to content aggregators and publishers.

Audio content production is becoming an important aspect of publishing by providing added value and increased financial returns for content. Acapela enables publishers to maximize this potential. Acapela is a key player in high quality content production - its powerful, multilingual, automatic text-to-speech transcription reads any written text in natural tones. Accessible publishing, Daisy books, vocalization of newspaper content, content aggregation, vocal access, self publishing, blogs and podcasting are application areas that will all benefit from turning written information into pleasant speech.

'Users are basically looking for the right information, in the right place at the right time. But what about the form? At Acapela we have decided to address this important issue and ease the life of publishers by allowing them to seamlessly turn their content into a pleasant and valuable audio version' says Lars-Erik Larsson, CEO of Acapela Group. 'D-fabric’s know-how and expertise in automatic retrieval, extraction, processing and delivery of data will enhance this service’.

 'The integration of d-fabric in to the Acapela Group allows us to offer a smart solution which combines highly automatic text retrieval and audio content production. Our shared vision and combined experience create a perfect environment for developing automatic tools that will specifically serve our customers’ needs and expand our presence in the publishing market' says Johan Isaksson, founder and CEO of d-fabric AB.

The combination of Acapela text-to-speech and d-fabric tools has already been successfully proven, with the audio production of the Swedish Parliament's newspaper, Riksdag & Department, and the vocalisation of Telefonavisa, a fully automated phone service deployed in Norway which allows blind and visually impaired people to access news gathered from 9 national newspapers and updated every 15 minutes, 24/7. 

About Acapela Group: http://www.acapela-group.com
Acapela Group, the leading European voice expert, invents text-to- speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 25 languages. We help you build your 'voice strategy', to enhance the promotion of your business to customers through the spoken word, and add audible value to your services and applications for improved market recognition and audio-brand visibility.
Our speech solutions allow you to turn any written text into natural speech files, using over 50 High Quality standard voices or your own synthesised voice talent. Acapela can answer all your text-to-speech needs and provide perfect vocalisation whether for voice integration and development, online & on demand use, audio files production, or ready to speak products for personal accessibility use.
Our international team of experts is fully dedicated to developing the best voice solutions, adapted to your particular project and market specificities. Over 850 companies around the world have already adopted Acapela high quality voices to voice-empower their products and services, in very different markets.

Check out http://www.acapela.tv - the sparkling laboratory of Acapela Group, for a fresh and exciting take on how speech synthesis can now be used: acapela.tv is a showcase and test playground that shares the possibilities of speech synthesis with Internet users, allowing them to discover innovative and attractive ways to make smart use of speech applications online.

About d-fabric: http://www.d-fabric.se

d-fabric offers effective services for information retrieval and processing of data from the internet and maintains technology and server platforms, called d fabric NextPhase® Server and d-fabric Taltidningssystemet. d-fabric delivers continuous and fully automatic information retrieval and voice production to its customers, so that they can get more efficient and save costs.