Siemens : SURPASS VoxPortal solution speaks with Acapela 's TTS.

Siemens Information and Communication Networks, a leading provider of integrated voice and data networks for enterprises, carriers, and service providers has chosen Acapela's text-to-speech to voice enable its powerfull VoxPortal platform solution.

VoxPortal is part of the SURPASS family, which provides a complete set of carrier-grade voice-data solutions for building the Next Generation Internet. It provides voice access to Internet content using ASR and TTS speech technologies.

VoxPortal enables users to easily access new Web based services from any phone. The heart of the system is a powerful Resource Voice Server, able to download and browse VoiceXML pages and read their content to the user, usingAcapela's multilingual, multichannel TTS software for client-server architectures.

Beside the ready to use e-mail-to-speech application, VoxPortal applications provides ideal possibilities for third-party developers for the versatile and practicable development of next generation networks applications, as well as the other SURPASS multimedia applications.

SURPASS VoxPortal is fully scalable from 30 to 24000 ports, with extension for multiple languages (up to 10 languages for TTS and 4 languages for ASR). The platform brings Siemens world-recognised sense of quality and reliability to the VoiceXML community.