Acapela Group
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Audible Publishing: make Reading accessible to ALL with Acapela voices. Acapela Group, the leading voice expert with 30 years of experience behind it, invents voice solutions to give your content a voice in up to 34 languages.
Over 100 synthetic voices in 34 languages are ready to give a voice to any content producing a natural and pleasant audio result, by turning written input into speech.
Voices for all. This is Acapela bespoke expertise.
More than just simple vocalization of texts, Acapela aims to add a subtle layer of intelligence, to significantly enrich the audio dimension with more meaning and intent.
A fairy tale, sports news, a crime novel, bank account information, online talking video, a solution to allow a kid living with autism to communicate with those closest to him, a way to enable a group to learn and share knowledge, for a pupil to progress in language learning… all have very different vocal requirements and need unique voices.
Accessible Publishing: Making the new books season accessible to everyone.
Audio book is by far the media most used by visually impaired and dyslexic users to access books. And the vocalisation of audio books is a key topic at Acapela.
The use of new technologies like synthetic voice allows to keep up with what’s happening in literature and offers the very latest novels that everyone is talking about; without delay.
A recent partnership with the French First Association for the blind has been a world premiere by making the new book season accessible to everyone. Novels that make the news are now available in a Daisy audio version at the same time as printed books.
‘I am 75 years old and I never thought I would be able to read the latest best sellers at the same time as people who can see. What a revolution!’ said an AVH user.
Acapela Group is particularly committed to the Accessibility community since its very beginning. Accessibility is part of the company roots. We are permanently looking for new solutions and ideas to create even better solutions for improving the living standard of people with disabilities.
There are different scenarios for consumption of EPUB3 and DAISY books. Different audiences, type of texts and reading contexts require reading system to adopt different presentation strategies. Text-to-speech features and strategies fit different consumption scenarios, and leads to an increase in reader’s engagement and acceptance.
Dyslexic and visually impaired user needs + text-to-speech solutions + Publishing industry = a new world of possibilities. Let’s talk about it