E-learning :
Acapela's speech synthesis makes it easier to teach reading and writing to illiterate adults.

Acapela Group, Europe's leading supplier in speech technologies, has been chosen as the technological partner for the German portal www.ich-will-schreiben-lernen.de (« I want to learn how to write »), which is a free website aimed at training illiterate adults.

Only a few hours after the German State Secretary launched the website, on the 8th of September 2004, the portal experienced a great media success with more than 40 000 connections and 1 700 registrations.

Germany has around 4 million illiterates, only 0,5% of which follow part time education programmes. The website is designed to help all illiterate people: 17 000 interactive courses and various news are available for free, anonymously.

Acapela's speech synthesis reads aloud the exercises and the corrections with a pleasant and very natural voice, and enables an easy navigation on the website.

Acapela's synthesis is available in 23 languages and perfectly recreates the human voice. It perfectly answers to e-learning and information accessibility needs..

About Acapela's speech synthesis

Acapela's speech synthesis is a "text-to-speech" (TTS) solution offering numerous application solutions. These are used by developers using synthesised voices as high quality information supports in their products and services. Based on the 'units selection' technology, Acapela TTS is able to recreate the human voice and can be easily integrated to speech enable any Telecom, Automotive, Multimedia, Mobile devices, Accessibility, Industry and Consumer Electronics applications and services.

About Acapela Group

Acapela Group, major supplier of speech solutions and vocal technologies in Europe, the Middle East and the Nordic markets, is very well known due to its numerous clients and partners in speech projects. These include: Alcatel, Alva, Atos Origin, Bo Jo Tveter, Bosch Blaupunkt, Daimler Chrysler, Franklin Electronic Publishers, Harman Becker, Intervoice, Magneti Marelli, Navigation Technologies, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Telia, Temic, Texas Instruments, Tieman, Toby Churchill, Scandis, Siemens, etc.