Acapela grows voices for Botanic's e-learning software.

Botanic is an innovative and committed specialist whose reputation has grown over the last ten years in key values by participating in nature conservation plans, encouraging everyday actions for the environment or partnership programs with local horticulture companies. As a nature specialist, Botanic knows that an important part of its customer satisfaction comes from the quality of the contact with its staff and the advice they give to customers. This is why the 2000 staff members of Botanic have permanent access to a training program. At the heart of this project, Botanic chose Acapela's speech synthesis to give a voice to its e-learning software. "Acapela's text-to-speech is by far the best we have ever tested for our on-line lessons. The quality and intonation are amazing, we could hardly tell if the voice was human or synthetic. The software allows us to generate high quality voice prompts at a very low cost with a perfect flexibility that allows us to re-write, update or adapt the content at any time. The new French male voice gives us a wider range of possibilities." says Sylvie Lavieille from Botanic.

By using Acapela's speech synthesis, Botanic gives its training programs a smooth and natural voice, in French and Italian, without generating extra costs due to recording and updating.

The voice prompts used by Botanic are generated with Acapela Virtual Speaker, a virtual recording studio which, once installed on the PC, allows them to freely create any voice message, in recording quality, without having to invest in extra hardware or specific integration or development. The time spent on researching and coordinating speakers and studio booking is now free to be spent concentrating on the contents.

"The quality of the output from Virtual Speaker and its ease of use make it the perfect tool to enable our teams to design and produce coherent and homogeneous content for the e-learning software, by including vocal elements immediately available in both languages." adds Sylvie Lavieille.

Customized information, efficient training, time saved and flexibility are many qualities that make text-to-speech the perfect component for a friendly and interactive, and therefore more efficient, e-learning system.