Acapela speech enables Proloquo multi purpose solution for Mac OS X.

"Proloquo provides the first full-flegded speech solution for Mac OS X." says David Niemeijer, AssistiWare CTO. "Using Acapela text to speech, it combines the highest quality voices available on the market with powerful, yet easy to use features that serve a wide variety of needs." Multilingual speech feedback and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)

AssistiveWare is the worldwide leader in innovative assistive technology software for Mac OS X. With the addition of Proloquo, AssistiveWare provides to end users a complete solution making daily life easier for thousands of people in the world, in the most natural way, whatever their disability. Proloquo can help people who cannot speak, improves accessibility for people with visual impairments or supports people with learning disabilities through Acapela's speech feedback. It can also be used as a talking processor, as a clip board reader for people who prefer listening to reading, as a pronunciation tool when learning foreign languages and last but not least, provides an advanced, multilingual speech engine for AssistiveWare's KeyStrokes® on-screen keyboard and SwitchXS® switch access solution.

"Proloquo provides the kind of augmentative communication I always hoped for." said Walter Pfrommer, medical adviser in a healthcare IT project. "Now, for the first time after I lost my own voice due to ALS/MND*, even new acquaintances and older persons understand me with ease. Without Proloquo for speech and KeyStrokes for typing, I would no longer be able to work!"

Integrated in Proloquo, Acapela high quality voices actively contributes to improve accessibility for everyone, offering the most natural interface to users looking at speech technology as a daily tool and essential technology to keep communicating.

Proloquo's suggested retail price is USD 299 or Euro 249, including High Quality and/or High Density Acapela voices for a language of choice. The languages currently include US English, UK English, German, Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Acapela voices for additional languages can be purchased as a language pack for USD 119 or 99 Euro.

*Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Motor Neurone Disease