Intelligent traffic noise

In 2000, the French National Centre for Road Travel Information (CNIR) up-rated its public call-in server from pre-recorded vocal response to TTS technology. After a successful first season, Acapela 's technology will continue to speak the nation's traffic news this summer too.

THE voice of French traffic, Bison Futé (literally Clever Bison), informs tourists to the most visited country in the world of traffic conditions throughout the land, 24 hours a day, for FF2.23 (or $0.34) per minute, by phoning 08 26 022 022