TTS for Personal Use

What 'Voices for personal use' stands for?

At Acapela, we mainly sell speech solutions to corporations and organizations which use our voices to give the say to their own products. In other words, it means that, on http://www.acapela-group.com website, you will not find an online shop to purchase and download our voices for your personal use.

Here is a suggestion of some talking applications developed by Acapela or by our partners and customers, for your personal use, at a consumer price and using Acapela voices. Those  talking applications may suit your needs while providing Acapela wide portfolio languages and voices support.

If you are a person having special needs, such as visual impairment, you can find more info about specific solutions on our Accessibility-page.   

Listen to written texts with a personal reader:

If you are looking for an easy-to-use software that allows you to listen to cut and pasted text, whatever the source is, then you can have a look at the following solutions:

• Text Aloud (for Windows) http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud
• Naturalreader (for Windows) http://www.naturalreaders.com
• Ghostreader (for Mac OSX) http://www.convenienceware.com

Give a personal voice to your speech enabled application:

If you have a speech enabled application -like for example the ebook reader MyScribe from CafeScribe- and you want it to speak with an Acapela voice, then you need to acquire a software that is supporting so called standard Speech APIs. 

Please check the compliancy of your application with following APIs (ask your supplier in case of doubt).

• SAPI for Windows, then you need Infovox Desktop or Infovox inKey (USB version)
• Speech Manager for Apple, then you need infovox iVox

Once you have purchased and downloaded the appropriate product, then you will just need to install those voices on your PC or Mac and your application will speak with Acapela voices (note that you might have to select the voice in the settings).

The Infovox product range is sold by our network of authorized distributors click here to check out our distributor list

Produce all-rights included sound files, online:

If you are looking for a tool to easily produce all-rights included voice prompts, to give a voice to your answering machine, to a film, your web pages, your blog or whatever, please check out www.acapela-box.com, our online service to easily produce sound files, in 25 languages and over 50 voices.

Play and have fun with text-to-speech:

If you want to share cheerful talking ecards and games with your contacts for free, visit www.acapela.tv

To learn more about the different talkative solutions developed by our customers and to find a product that might fit your needs take a look at our Applications & References page.

Producing Sound Files

As a private person there are some limitations on those software linked to the use of the sound files that you can create with them. As long as those sound files are used on a private, non-professional and non-profit basis there is no limitation. In all other cases you might need to purchase one of our other products in order to get the rights to do what you want to do.