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Acapela Lets You Reproduce Messages in Brand New Voices

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Acapela is an IVR service provider offering innovative speech solutions to vocalize content with authentic and original voices in 30 languages. The solution allows you to type in your own message and hear how your content may sound, depending the voice you choose - child voice, voices of characters or celebrities, with accents or dialect attributes, that sing or tell stories that can adopt different moods, for all ages and all languages.

With Acapela, you can choose from Will or Antoine in different moods; Queen Elizabeth; Australian Tyler; Hip hop Saul; Country Micah, Dimitris, Jeroen or Margaux either happy or sad.  More than just simple vocalization of texts, Acapela aims to add a subtle layer of intelligence, to significantly enrich audio dimension with more meaning and intent, the company said.

The voices available include: Rosie and Harry (UK English - child),Ella and Josh (US English - child),Micah (US English - 'Country'),Saul (US English - 'hiphop'),Tyler (Australian English),Will (US English - Happy, sad, upClose, fromAFar, bad guy, little creature, old man),Antoine  (French - Happy, Sad, upClose, fromAFar),Margaux (Happy - happy or sad),Jeroen (Dutch BE - happy or sad),Dimitris (Greek - happy or sad) and Queen Elizabeth (UK English).

Acapela is releasing an interactive demo at http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html.

In September, Acapela unveiled the availability of Acapela TTS Voices app on Google (News - Alert) Play. The app allows users to listen to any of 50 available voices in 26 languages. Users can then purchase as many voices as they like for 3.99 euros — about US$5.00 — per voice, turning any Android (News - Alert) device into a smart talking companion.

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