Code Factory Success Stories

• Making digital television accessible to all: Acapela gives a Voice to TV Speak from Code Factory.
  
  
• Mobile Speak Pocket: Acapela TTS speech enables Code Factory Pocket PC solution.
  
  
• Code Factory selects Acapela text to speech for Mobile Speak.
  
  

Making digital television accessible to all: Acapela gives a Voice to TV Speak from Code Factory.

TV Speak from Code Factory enables the blind or visually impaired to use the most common functionality of digital television. The application needs to be installed on a computer equipped to receive a digital television signal.

Acapela voices turn information necessary to access television into pleasant speech and vocally guide the user through the TV functions. Speech output with Acapela voices, combined with magnification, provides access to the most frequently used features of digital television.

'The way people watch television is changing. In the near future we will all use television to access the web and consume multimedia content and digital information. Blind people cannot be left out of this new world of possibilities. Therefore television has to be accessible and TV Speak is our first contribution to this field' explains Eduard Sánchez, Code Factory’s CEO.

'Digital information and recent affordability of Accessibility applications combined with consumer devices are changing the landscape instantly. The Accessibility market is booming with new opportunities for the end user. As a bespoke voice partner of assistive solutions, we are proud to give the say to TV Speak.' comments Lars-Erik Larsson, Acapela Group's CEO.

TV Speak includes:  

• Common TV functions: move channels up and down, change the volume, etc.   
• Configuration of both television and TV Speak parameters.   
• Access to teletext.   
• Access to the Electronic Program Guide (EPG).   
• Tune and manage television and radio channels.   
• Record television programs (image + audio, or audio only).   
• Parental control.

TV Speak is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Czech, Italian and Catalan.

For more information: http://www.codefactory.es/en/

Mobile Speak Pocket: Acapela TTS speech enables Code Factory Pocket PC solution.

From reading aloud any text or incoming information to browsing Internet on the move, Mobile Speak Pocket opens up mobile computing avenues for blind and visually impaired people. Mobile Speak Pocket users can now enjoy the complete access to windows mobile mainstream devices like a sighted person at mainstream prices. Mobile Speak Pocket works with a variety of keyboards, braille devices available on the market. The user has the complete flexibility to chose a PDA or a Smartphone and add Mobile Speak Pocket to it. "We are proud to work with Acapela. The integration of Acapela multilingual text to speech allows us to satisfy the needs of our distributors throughout Europe, with a single engine, and to offer to end users the choice to combine different languages on one device." says Irja Emma Gerdes Marketing Manager of Code Factory. Mobile Speak Pocket is already available in 18 languages. It enables a high level of customisation of parameters such as speech or text review. It includes a support for a number of third party applications such as GPS navigation software, turning the PDA into a powerful and scalable speech enabled device. Once, SFR, Maroc Telecom, Vodafone, Bouygues Telecom are part of Code Factory customers.

Code Factory selects Acapela text to speech for Mobile Speak.

Code Factory, one of the leading providers of software solutions for mobile professionals and visual accessibility, has recently launched its new software product for the blind and visually impaired. Mobile Speak is a screen reader product for mobile phones that gives access to most of the functionalities of the device. It works with Nokia Series 60 phones as well as the Siemens SX1. The software incorporates Acapela text to speech, resulting in a very natural and pleasant sounding voice. Mobile Speak is available in 15 languages and is 35% less expensive than other comparable products on the market.

Eduard S?nchez Palaz?n, CEO of Code Factory, reported that "Choosing Acapela as the Text-to-speech provider allows us to reach a wide range of different countries, due to the number of languages supported by their technology. The quality of Acapela's speech synthesis is also outstanding."

Operators in some Arab countries have already announced that the speech capabilities of the product will allow them to offer the software to people with reading difficulties.

As some important features of a mobile phone are inherently visual and cannot be made accessible, Mobile Speak will contain a free additional software package which includes a calculator, a sound recorder, a game and an MP3 Player developed by Viking Informatics Ltd. In addition, the specially-adapted web browser Netfront3.1 by Access Systems Europe GmbH will be offered soon at a small fee. This means that it is possible for blind people for the first time to navigate on internet using a mobile phone.

Based in Barcelona (Spain), Code Factory has been selected by ONCE as European partner for Accessibility applications.

Mobile Phone Solutions

Speech synthesis allows to turn standard mobile phones into powerful assistive aids: reading out loud scanned information, vocalising the content, allowing any end user living with communication disabilities to communicate with is environment, turning its words into natural speech, etc.