Speech Tek '05:

Acapela Group, leading European Speech Group, will showcase 'out loud' at Speech Tek '05 their latest product news with a global Telecom offer and Virtual studio solution as well as an amazing voice-enabled 3-D model demonstration for mobile, web or chat applications. The Acapela Team would be happy to welcome you to their booth to let you hear all about our very high quality US English voices, part of our multilingual offer and tell you how Acapela actively works to better serve the US market demands, with latest success stories such as a key partnership with Kirusa, the vocalization of the Philip-K Dick android and the integration of our high quality text to speech in Don Johnston's flagship program.

SpeechTEK '05 Acapela focus

> Enhance speech automation and customer satisfaction Acapela Telecom is designed to voice enable Enterprise and Telco applications and services -from single host solutions to distributed architectures- such as Contact Center, auto attendant, voice portals, web content reading access to databases, SMS to voice or email reading, etc.

In addition to the Windows version, the Acapela Telecom family now offers a Linux version, providing Linux developers with its high end multilingual text to speech engine.

With Acapela Telecom, updated written information becomes easily accessible 24/7, from any phone in real time. Content reading ranges from simple messages to large databases. Acapela multilingual offer covers up to 22 languages with more than 50 voices.

> Vocalize any content, development and integration free! Virtual Speaker is a desktop virtual recording solution, which can vocalize any text and content, to then be used to give the say to the heart of call centres, e-learning programs, public address broadcast, online help, etc.

It reads any text file out, loud and clear, with the rich natural voice of Acapela's high quality text to speech, and therefore simplifies the creation and updating processes for all of these services. Virtual Speaker works 24/7, automatically processing updates or new messages for instant transmission, with no round-the-clock supervision.

Content localization in different languages is made through a single tool, and update issues are considerably simplified. Virtual Speaker frees the organization from heavy speaker and recording logistics constraints.

> Get Acapela text to speech into 3D MMS! Acapela will also be demonstrating an amazing application developed by CyberExtruder.com Inc., a New Jersey software development company, which turns in a few seconds a picture of anyone, even you, into a 3D model, speech enabled by Acapela text to speech, thus creating an innovative and outstanding way to animate communities, create greeting cards, personalize mobile devices and perform caller identification. Using Acapela high quality text to speech, your 3D model will speak in real time, using your own words, with a smooth and natural sounding voice, providing high intelligibility and naturalness to the end-user. >> Test your own 3D speech enabled model booth #211!

SpeechTEK '05, Marriott Hotel, New York, August 1-4. www.speechtek.com