Acapela for iPhone
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Description
Voice-empower content for an ever more intuitive use of applications designed for the Apple App Store. Acapela for iPhone has been designed to offer to iPhone community developers a High Quality speech engine specifically adapted to meet their needs. Games, educational programmes, finance, health and fitness, productivity, social networking, etc; whatever the application, Acapela text to speech naturally enriches the visual and touch-sensitive interface with pleasant and natural voices.With a simple and easy to manage business model. Applications designed for iPhone and iPod Touch use groundbreaking technologies such as the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometers, GPS, real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. With Acapela for iPhone, developers can now easily add a vocal dimension, in many languages. Acapela for iPhone has been designed both for developers used to ?mobile" environment software and Mac programmers. Thanks to the High Level API written in Objective C, developers will be able, with a minimum of code lines, to quickly and easily integrate speech synthesis into their application for iPhone and iPod Touch. Click on this link to watch short videos of Acapela for iPhone.
Key Benefits
> Text to Speech engine specifically adapted to iPhone developers needs > Easy integration of voice for enhanced intuitive interface > Very natural and pleasant voices > Multilingual offer > Choice between male and female voices
> Business model adapted to Apple App Store philosophy
Key Features
> High Level API in Objective C > Easy to use and to integrate: 3 lines of code enable to add a speaking voice to the application > Multilingual: 17 languages and 33 voices available > Word synchronization capability > 2 voice formats available: LF* (~25MB/voice) and HQM** (*low footprint - **High Quality Medium size) > Setting of speed and volume > Output to file or to speaker/headphone. > Text tag through special commands > Sample source code
Languages and Voices
HQ TTS: very High Quality Text To Speech resulting in a very natural and pleasant-sounding voice which has never been closer to the human speaker. LF TTS : Low Footprint version of our HQ Text To Speech voices (~25MB/voice) HQ TTS F M Czech Danish Dutch (B) Dutch (NL) English (UK) English (US) Finnish French French (Canadian) German Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Spanish Spanish (North America) Swedish
Technical Specifications
> Version Supported : iPod Touch V1 & 2, iPhone V1 & 3G > OS: iPhone OS 2.0 and higher > 2 different voice database sizes (smallest: 25MB), sampling frequencies 22 kHz. > Api : proprietary API in Objective C [AcapelaSpeech]
> Development environment: XCode 3.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Intel) > Static libraries for both iPhone simulator and Devices > Audio Output : 22 kHz. > Text tags: to modify parameters on the fly. > Word Synchronization > Needed RAM: 3 to 4 Mo for LF voices, 5 to 10 Mo for HQM voices (depending of the voice) > Static library for test on the iPhone Simulator on Mac OS X.
Packaging
Delivered through Download and CD
Evaluation Version Description
Evaluation version available on request - contact us for more information.