Acapela Group (stylized ''acapela group'') is a Swedish-Belgian
company that develops
text-to-speech
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...
software and services. It was formed in December 2003 from a combination of three European companies specializing in vocal technologies, Babel Technologies (Belgium), Infovox (Sweden) and Elan Speech (France).
Today, Acapela provides text-to-speech capabilities for languages including Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
See also
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Comparison of speech synthesizers
Here is a non-exhaustive comparison of speech synthesis programs:
General
Technical voice details
Technical details
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Comparison of screen readers Current screen readers
Unfinished screenreader projects
Discontinued and/or obsoleted screen readers
Software aids for people with reading difficulties
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Chinese speech synthesis
Chinese speech synthesis is the application of speech synthesis to the Chinese language (usually Standard Chinese). It poses additional difficulties due to the Chinese characters (which frequently have different pronunciations in different cont ...
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Microsoft text-to-speech voices
The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are speech synthesizers provided for use with applications that use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-sp ...
References
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External links
Acapela's website
Software companies established in 2003
Speech synthesis software
2003 establishments in Belgium