Speech enabling the Arabic market: CCMENA and Acapela Group to jointly promote Text-To-Speech.

Acapela Group and Converged Communications MENA, a.k.a. CCMENA - a leading one-stop shop for converged communication technologies, products, services and solutions in the Middle East and North Africa - have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly promote Text-To-Speech solutions in the Middle East and North Africa region, adding Acapela's Telecom TTS software to CCMENA's growing range of converged communications building blocks and solutions. "The Middle East and North African region is experiencing unprecedented growth levels in the area of automation of processes, especially those related to customer service through the telephone; Acapela High Quality Text-To-Speech (TTS) is perfectly suited for this", commented Saul Olivares, CCMENA's Sales and Marketing Director. "We are delighted to work with Acapela Group in helping our customers in the MENA region to provide ever enhanced high end value added services for their end users", he added.

Acapela's High Quality text to speech converts any text into voice synthesis and enables all written information to be easily accessed from any phone, in Arabic, or any other of its 22 languages. Acapela TTS allows to access any written information over the phone, with a very natural and pleasant voice. A must for telecom integrators, solution designers, voice platform builders or service providers who have already tested, approved and chosen Acapela's Arabic synthesis for its outstanding golden tones.

By teaming up with the main specialists, Acapela Group has become the leader of speech technologies in the Arabic world. Vincent Fontaine, CEO of Acapela Group underlined: "CCMENA's presence in the Middle East and North African market bring tremendous value and opportunity to Acapela's plans to further penetrate in the MENA market. We are proud to become part of CCMENA's product portfolio. We are very committed to assisting CCMENA and its customers to develop and deploy TTS-based solutions."

Acapela Group's speech solutions have already been widely deployed to speech enable voice portals, unified messaging services, CRM and contact centers, talking web, interactive games, edutainment software, e-learning tools, public address, assistive tools for the disabled, navigation aid, embedded systems, and much more.

Acapela will be exhibiting at Gitex'06 (Dubai, Nov 18th-22nd), to let you hear all about its High Quality Arabic TTS offer and latest deployments in the Middle East.