Alva: Acapela voice-enabled cellular phone awarded at 3GSM.

Alva, a leading provider of assistive information technology for the blind and the visually impaired has been honoured by a prestigious 2004 GSM Association Award in the new category "Mobile in the Community - Best use of Mobile for Special Needs". Voice-enabled by Acapela High Quality text to speech, this fully integrated cellular phone and personal organizer has been designed exclusively for the visually impaired.

The Alva cellular phone, the MPO 5500, puts resources at the user's fingertips in a small durable device accessible vie speech or Braille when most of mobile devices are mainly and increasingly visually oriented. From the GSMA judge's comments: "Alva has put a lot of thought into the MPO 5500 and has successfully opened up the potential and benefits of GSM communications to an important user group".