French weather sounds better with Acapela TTS

Météo France, the French meteorology organisation, has chosen Acapela's golden tone High Quality TTS to read out the sea weather forecasts, flight condition information or weather alerts, available over the phone 24-7. Météo France had already adopted speech synthesis long ago, as an efficient way to enable, automate, and guarantee access to ever up-to-date information, and is now enriching its services with Acapela High Quality TTS. The Météo Marine sea weather forecast service for the French atlantic coast, or flight conditions for amateur pilots were already speech-enabled by Acapela Group technology.

By upgrading to Acapela HQ TTS, Météo France goes one step futher than simple intelligibility, to reach a result that has never been closer to a human voice.

The quality of the services themselves is also enhanced by this change : "Untill now, the bulletins were all recorded by different agents. Thanks to Acapela High Quality TTS, we have created a homogenous service using the same clear and intelligible voice, for easier listening and quality services." says Stephane Cottonea from Météo France.

The quality of Acapela HQ TTS technology convinced Météo France to use it to complete its alert service and automate the processing of the weather alert bulletins outside of the regional offices' opening hours. Therefore, with Acapela High Quality TTS technology, unexpected and exceptional weather conditions can be taken into account by any Météo France agent via a simple keyboard. The information is instantly added to the database to be read out in real time by the speech synthesis system, with no recording needed.

Meteo France's main mission, which is to monitor the atmospherical conditions to forecast all possible risks for the security of the population, requires the most reliable technology and full control of information from production to processing on a national scale. By enforcing the essential part that speech synthesis plays in the heart of its services, Météo France confirms the quality of Acapela's High Quality voice for the vocalisation of important information, 24-7.