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Acapela Onboard
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Category : • Solutions for Developers
Application Fields : • Automotive • Consumer Electronics • Mobility
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Description
Driving time safely spent
Multilingual Text To Speech (TTS) component for automotive & embedded systems.
Acapela Onboard speech solutions are an effective way of delivering all kinds of information to users vocally, freeing their eyes and considerably simplifying access to data, through the most natural interface: voice.
Voice-guided navigation, communication and entertainment, location based services, onboard diagnostics, the car industry is obviously a major speech consumer. Acapela speech solutions significantly increase autonomy & safety, allowing drivers to make the most of the time spent in the car, without taking their eyes off the road or hands off the wheel.
Key Benefits
Single code, data driven
Open system
One Public API
Multi platforms solution
Mixed-prompts,
Navteq and Teleatlas phonetic support,
Footprint scalability,
Voice switching.
Languages and Voices
HQ TTS: very High Quality Text To Speech resulting in a very naturaland pleasant-sounding voice which has never been closer to the human speaker.
HD TTS : very High Density Text To Speech off ering the best density/quality compromise of the market.
Technical Specifications
Acapela Onboard HD TTS
> CPU usage: from 10 to 42 mips
> Running memory needed: from 112 Kb to 2 Mb
> Storage Memory: from 600 kb to 6 Mb
> APIs: proprietary API
> Devl: C, C++
> Audio Output: 22 Khz / 16 Khz / 11 Khz
> Text tags (proprietary, SAPI) to modify parameters on the fly
Acapela Onboard HQ TTS
> Running memory RAM: 3 MB
> Memory: 1 MB for the librairy plus the voice databases.
> Three voice coding are supported to offer a large scalibility:
- From 10 MB to 200 MB.
- Scalable CPU consumption: 50 to 100 MIPS allows trade-off CPU / Memory.
- Reduced Hard Disk access: from 11 access per second.
- Sampling frequencies 11KHz, 16 KHz and 22 KHz.
> Compatibility with Phonetic map data - Navteq, Teleatlas - for navigation applications.
> Support of prompts and TTS mix.
Acapela Onboard available Operating Systems
> WIN32 (98 > XP)
> WINCE (3.0 > 5.0)
> Linux
> Symbian
> QNX
> VxWorks
Other OS can be supported upon request
> For standard platform needs, see Acapela Mobility
Development tools required
> ANSI C compiler (C++ recommended)
> A real time kernel (QNX, μITRON, NEUTRINO, PSOS, RTXC, VxWorks, WIN, WindowsCE, ... )
> Best suited : Cross debugger, File system at least on the target used for development, incremental linker, link editor.
Values depend on language and technology. Not all languages are supported by all OS.
Packaging
Download and CD
Evaluation Version Description
Evaluation version under Windows, WinCe and Linux
