Virtual Speaker gives a voice to iProgress' leading e-learning programme PROGESSION®.

iProgress, an active e-learning company with over 400 clients, designs, develops and installs training and complementary e-learning solutions for professional users of computer applications. iProgress has chosen VirtualSpeaker, Acapela Group's virtual recording studio solution, to voice-enable their integrated e-learning solution, PROGRESSION®, already licenced to 3 million users worldwide. The PROGRESSION® solution provides training contents, either available for standard office applications, or developed specifically for Business Applications (ERP, CRM, specific sector applications... ). The PROGRESSION® contents now integrate sound, thanks to Acapela's vocal solution, and also multimedia illustrations and software simulations for easier learning.

By using VirtualSpeaker, iProgress completes their training software with a smooth and natural voice, in several languages, with no costly recording and updating expenses. Acapela's text to speech, which can transform any text into speech in real time with an extremely natural voice, provides quality high enough to replace a human voice recording.

"The sound quality of Acapela's Virtual Speaker solution and it's ease of use make it a complementary and essential tool for our R&D teams to design and develop coherant and unified e-learning contents with vocal elements immediatly available in different languages." Says Jocelyne Dereeper, Director of Instructional Design at iProgess.

The localisation of the contents into different languages can be done with the one text-to-speech tool, and the updates are much easier to manage. VirtualSpeaker frees you from the ties of recording studios and the associated logistics issues. Personalising information, increasing learning efficiency, saving time, and flexibility are the main features that make speech synthesis an interesting component for convivial and interactive e-learning.