New Acapela Telecom 5.2 speech engine: Enhancing speech automation and customer satisfaction.

Acapela Group releases the new version of Acapela Telecom (5.2), its speech engine designed to voice enable Enterprise and Telco applications and services -from single host solutions to distributed architectures- such as Contact Centres, auto attendant, voice portals, web content reading access to databases, SMS to voice or email reading, etc.

With Acapela Telecom, updated written information becomes easily accessible from any phone in real time, 24/7. Content reading ranges from simple messages to large data bases.

Acapela Telecom transforms any text into natural speech, reading it aloud with the flexibility and richness of natural souding speech. It speaks multiple languages and reads proper names, numbers and currencies for optimal restitution of information. Thanks to its highly sophisticated pre-processing module, Acapela Telecom also perfectly converts emails, HTML or RTF content.

> Seamless Integration
The SDK is delivered with different API's (NSCAPI, SAPI 4&5.1, Nuance and a native Java client supporting JSAPI and JSML, and Active X) to ease the integration in the application framework. The Windows Edition will be followed by the Linux Edition end of April 2005.

> Golden tone casting: 22 languages and up to 50 voices
A wide range of languages and voices uses provide golden tones to answer to ever more demanding end users looking for high end services 24/7.
Acapela Telecom TTS Windows Edition 5.2 is already available in High Quality version in 12 languages: Arabic, Dutch (B), Dutch (NL), English (UK), English (US), French, German, Italian, the brand NEW Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and the newest version of the Swedish.
And in High Density version (Diphone) in 22 languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch (B), Dutch (NL), English (UK), English (US), Faroe, French, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (South America), Swedish and Turkish.
Hear more with the on line demo and samples.

> Easy Evaluation
A free evaluation version of Acapela Telecom Windows Edition is available with a 30 days time limitation - please submit at http://www.acapela-group.com/corporate/contact_form.asp
(Nota! This evaluation product can be used by developers only. It can not be used as it is but requires development/integration work. To test the quality of the TTS please consult the Demos page on Acapela website).

> Already giving them the Say!
Acapela Telecom already speech enables major services such as SFR's SMS to voice, EDA's 1313, the French traffic information "BisonFûté", the UCPA's voice portal... and is already integrated by major partners such as Alcatel, Atos Origin, Avaya, CAE, Cycos, Eicon, Envox, Intervoice, Kirusa, Map Telecom, Materna, Netcentrex, Prosodie, SandCherry, Siemens, Tecnomen, Telia, Vocalcom, Voxpilot, etc.