IDS navigates with PocketSpeech

IDS, a major european provider of Geographical Information Systems and cartographical software, has chosen Acapela PocketSpeech to speech-enable their GPS navigation application, ID Navigator.

ID Navigator is a GPS application, compatible with PC and PocketPC, which offers many functions to make street name searching and on-board navigating fast and efficient.

ID Navigator uses Acapela 's text-to-speech to communicate directions for cars, bicycles or pedestrians, using up to date traffic information combined with high-quality map data.

IDS developed ID Navigator by combining the most complete cartographical data on the market (TeleAtlas data for all regions) and high-quality technology (Opteway, Acapela ).

Using Acapela 's text-to-speech, the users simply follow the directions without taking their eyes off the road, without getting lost, without wasting time. Acapela PocketSpeech, a TTS component for PocketPC, will read any text out loud, smoothly recognising abbreviations, numbers, currencies and proper names, in 9 languages with a choice of 17 different voices.