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Oslo bus terminal: Acapela Voices provide real time traffic information to visually impaired passengers.

Oslo bus terminal, one of the biggest in Scandinavia, situated in the heart of the city, with over 10 000 passengers a day, is using Acapela speech synthesis to provide vocalized, real time bus traffic information to people living with visual or reading difficulties.

Inaugurated in March 08, the new information system, designed for the Oslo terminal by Trivector System, features more than 100 large, easy to read displays that ease access to information for passengers and drivers. To provide an equally efficient and comprehensive service to people with reading and visual difficulties, a speech capability has now been added, to provide all passengers with real time information vocalized by Acapela voices.

Speech buttons installed in different places around the bus station and on the main tactile display accurately transform text into speech, and provide real time notification of departure times, destinations and other standard information, as well as, importantly, information on any changes or delays.

‘The passenger pushes a button and the information is read to him/her at the same moment as it is shown on the display panels. The buttons are located around the bus terminal as well as on a tactile map with relief and braille, placed in a central part of the terminal’, says Klas Odelid, CEO of Trivector System, which has created and installed the system and the tactile map. This latest initiative complements previous information system installations by Trivector System at Oslo’s bus terminal, one of the biggest bus terminals in Scandinavia.

‘Speech synthesis opens up new opportunities and removes disadvantages associated with traditional voice systems’ says Lars-Erik Larsson, CEO, Acapela Group. ‘No pre-recording of messages is needed, nor the storage of audio files. You can also give the user the possibility to pick the language of his/her choice for the reading’.

This new and innovative use of Acapela’s voice solutions demonstrates once again how Public Transportation Information Systems can benefit from speech synthesis to deliver accurate and automatically updated information to both passengers and operators.

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