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Language learning and Multilingual content creation: Acapela voice empowers iKnow!

iKnow! users can create language learning audio content using multilingual Acapela Text-to-Speech technology.

The iKnow! social learning platform allows Internet user to learn and remember any language. The iKnow! platform is a collaborative network that lets learners all over the globe leverage and remix content produced by the community. It has been designed to help users learn faster, remember longer, and collaborate on the creation of content.

iKnow! has integrated Acapela text-to-speech in multiple languages – including, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, German, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, and Norwegian -- to automatically generate audio for all created items and sentences. Immediate audio feedback is provided to the iKnow! Community member with speech synthesis to optimise language learning, transforming in a click written words into speech, with Acapela natural and pleasant tones.

“This is a major step in our vision to create the first global social learning platform, one that allows people to share what they know, and learn what they want to know.” said Andrew Smith Lewis, founder and chairman of Cerego. “As the largest online English Language Learning site in Japan, now open to the rest of the world, we look forward to empowering users across multiple languages to come together and create the best content available anywhere.”

There are currently 340,000 registered iKnow! users, who have spent over 16 million minutes in the applications mastering over 20 million items just in the last 30 days.

About Cerego
Founded in 2000 and based in Tokyo, Cerego empowers people to learn faster, remember longer, and manage their memory for a lifetime. Cerego’s iKnow! intelligent social learning platform helps users efficiently encode, store, and retrieve knowledge. Powered by personalized, adaptive learning algorithms that accelerate knowledge acquisition, iKnow! is a new venue for users to create, share, and learn.
For more information, visit www.iknow.co.jp.

Language learning

Speech synthesis enriches language learning tools with an immediate vocal support of the requested text or words to help them in their pronunciation learning process. The learning programme is boosted by the speech dimension, providing to the users a interactive constant vocal support, whether in a learning, travel or work situation.

E-Learning

Training courses to employees or on-line university study can all benefit from the vocal dimension. Synchronised use of visual and audio contents offers a right balanced flow of information, for a more appealing and efficient memorization of the course through effective multimedia-based learning tools.
The content can be easily localised and personalised, saving time and cost while offering convivial and interactive e-learning.