Company timeline
Acapela Group is a European leader of voice solutions with 30 years of expertise and market feedback, strong partnerships, deep rooted R&D, an enthusiastic team and a strong appetite for innovation.
2021
VOICE AI: Acapela Group introduces its Neural digital voices.
New voices: Meet Isabel, Zeynep, Jalal & more.
Meet TAMIRA, the first African American English digital voice.
2019
2018
New major version of my-own-voice, based on Acapela DNN.
Dutch children’s voices, Merel and Thijs
VOICI R&D project
VIADUCT R&D project
2017
Creation of Acapela Inclusive Business Unit
Acapela DNN: Innovative voice creation based on deep learning
New children’s voices: Italian (Aurora and Alessio)
EMPHATIC R&D project
2016
New children’s voices: Norwegian (Emilie and Elias)
New children’s voices: French (Elise and Valentin)
New Children’s voices: Swedish (Freja and Filip)
2015
2014
Voice banking: my-own-voice
New Scottish english voice: ‘Rhona’
Creation of Acapela Transport Business Unit
New French voice: ‘Manon’
Genuine bilingual US Spanish-English children’s text to speech voices: ‘Valeria & Emilio’
2012
Acapela TTS voices for Android, on Google Play
30 languages & 100 voices available !
Child voices world premiere: ‘Ella’ and ‘Josh’ (US English) and ‘Rosie’ and ‘Harry’ (UK English) for & by children
2.5 million talkative apps & 100 apps featured in the acapela for iOS gallery
Japanese voice, ‘Sakura’
Chinese voice, ‘Lulu’
Story telling voices Will, Antoine
Expressive voices: up to 4 different ways to express moods and feelings: happy, sad, fromAfar and Upclose (US English, UK English, French, Greek, Bengian Dutch)
iVox 3: Voices for iMac OS X
R&D – ‘MARDI’ project: Man Robot Dialogue in situated manner. (partners: SUPELEC, LIA, LAAS)
R&D- ‘D-BOX’ project: conversational and multilingual agents
R&D -‘content4all’ project: to enhance the reading of long texts
2011
Character voices – Hip hop (Saul) and Country (Micah)
Swedish dialect voices : Göteborg and Skåne
Australian English voice: ‘Tyler’
Indian English voice: ‘Deepa’
Celebrity voice: ‘Queen Elizabeth’
Solution for Android: www.acapela-for-android.com
R&D- DiYSE projects
2010
PATENT HMM TTS: Speech Synthesis and Coding Methods – European patent application: EP 2 242 045 A1
Swedish of Finland voice : Samuel, for NOSS
Infovox3, all-in-one local and portable talking companion for visually impaired users
1st self-service audio production web app: www.acapela-box.com
MRCPv2 full support
R&D –‘Romeo’ project: humanoid assistant
R&D -‘Emospeech’ (Eurostar project): natural and emotional interaction with virtual environments
R&D –‘Biospeak’ project: development and improvement of voice transformation paradigms
2009
Full bilingual Arabic-English voice: ‘Nizar’
Low Footprint voices for mobiles (LF)
R&D-‘GVLEX’ project: Gesture and voice for expressive reading
2008
www.acapela.tv, online sparkling online laboratory
Acapela TTS for iPhone SDK
ISO certification
www.acapela-vaas.com: on-line service for smart vocalization
First custom voices with Acapela Voice Factory
First talking greetings with Winter Bunny
R&D – HMMTTS First Entreprise Project: new TTS technology based on HMM (Hidden Markov Models)
2007
R&D- ‘Indigo’ project: human-robot interaction
2006
2005
R&D-Boon Companion (ITEA project)
R&D-DIVINES project: Diagnostic and Intrinsic Variabilities in Natural Speech
2004
First Arabic TTS
Infovox Desktop
R&D – ULYCES: Telematic platform for the automotive industry, based on Win CE technology
2003
Creation of Acapela Group. Merger of 3 European speech experts:: Babel Technologies (BE), Elan speech (FR) and Infovox (SWE).
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