Acapela Telecom

Bridging the gap between voice and data

Acapela Telecom has been designed to speech-enable Enterprise and Telco applications : Interactive Voice Response Services, Voice Self Services, Unified communication, Contact and Call centre automation, Auto Attendant, SMS to Voice, Directory and Reverse Directory assistance, Access to Databases, Voice Portals, all Voice XML based applications, Web reading a.o.

Acapela Telecom transforms any text into natural speech, reading it out loud with the flexibility and richness of natural sounding speech.

It speaks multiple languages and reads proper names, numbers and currencies for optimal restitution of information. Thanks to its highly sophisticated pre-processing module, Acapela Telecom also perfectly converts emails, HTML or RTF content.

> Client-server Architecture and heterogeneous environment.

Acapela Telecom is designed for network telecom applications, from single host solutions to distributed architectures. Acapela Telecom’s unique API is cross operating systems and available over all configurations. It can be integrated once and deployed in all types of configurations without any extra engineering effort. The client and the server can run locally or remotely with a direct connection or IP based connection, enabling transparent extension or re-architecturing. Any client (Windows & Linux) can be connected to any server, allowing a highly flexible architecture.

> High density performance

Acapela Telecom is an efficient TTS server, providing lower hardware investment with maximum efficiency. A single processor PIV 2,4 Ghz is able to run up to 50 simultaneous TTS sessions with any combination of languages and voices. For larger deployments Acapela Telecom supports multi-server architecture with clustering.

> Scalability, multi-processor, clustering

Acapela Telecom is a multi-channel engine, perfectly optimised for mono and multi-processor systems and includes a distributed mode enabling very large deployments based on a cluster of servers. Up to 100 servers can be viewed as a single TTS resource from the application thanks to a load balancing mechanism handling and distributing all application requests.

Acapela Telecom’s cross-platform API and client-server architecture allow for fast time to market when porting to new platforms and OS’s.

> Reliable and manageable

Designed to run 24/7, a supervising process checks for stale instances or locked processes and manages to re-load or terminate unreleased tasks providing permanent full availability. In a multi-server configuration, Acapela Telecom is remotely administrable and load balanced to ensure perfect availability of TTS resources for applications.

HQ TTS: very High Quality Text To Speech resulting in a very naturaland pleasant-sounding voice which has never been closer to the human speaker.

HD TTS : very High Density Text To Speech off ering the best density/quality compromise of the market.

	HQ TTS		HD TTS
	F	M	F	M
Arabic
Czech
Danish
Dutch (B)
Dutch (NL)
English (UK)
English (US)
Faeroese
Finnish
French
French (Canadian)
German
Greek
Icelandic
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish
Spanish (North America)
Swedish
Turkish

Acapela Telecom Windows Edition

> Version supported : NT 4SP6, Windows 2000SP3, Windows XP

> APIs : proprietary API, Microsoft SAPI 4, Microsoft SAPI 5.1, Nuance 8.5 and NVP.

> Native Java Client supporting JSAPI/JSML (on demand).

> MRCP 1.0 (Media Resource Control Protocol), optional add-on.

> Markup languages : SSML (VoiceXML 2.O), JSML (JSAPI).

> Development languages : C, C++, VB (Through ActiveX), Delphi, Java.

> Text Input : Unlimited vocabulary, unlimited text size, row text, phonetic and prosodic input (HD only).

> Text normalisation : dates, time, currencies, units, URL, abbreviations and exceptions.

> Pre-processing modules : e-mail, automatic language identification availability depending on languages.

> Audio Output :

- Output stream : multimedia device, file, memory buffer, DirectX, ACM (for MP3 or re-sampling), Stream (SAPI 5).

- Audio sampling rate : 8khz (telephony) A-law, μ-Law or PCM. Optional additional voices at 22khz.

> TTS Server Running modes : Local or remote (IP), as a desktop process or as a service.

> Additional Modules : performance monitor, event viewer log, configuration tool.

> Additional Components : ActiveX, Sample source code.

> TTS client running on : Windows NT/2000/XP and Linux

Acapela Telecom Linux Edition

> Version supported : Linux RedHat ES 3.0., 4.0, 5.0

> API : proprietary API, Native Java Client supporting JSAPI/JSML.

> Markup languages : SSML (VoiceXML 2.O), JSML (JSAPI).

> Development language : C, C++.

> Text input : Unlimited vocabulary, unlimited text size, row text, phonetic and prosodic input (HD only).

> Text normalisation : dates, time, currencies, abbreviations and exceptions.

> Pre-processing modules : e-mail , automatic language identification availability depending on languages.

> Audio Output :

- Output stream : file, memory buffer.

- Audio sampling rate : 8khz (telephony), A-law, μ-Law or PCM.

> Additional components : Sample source code.

> TTS client running on : Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux.

DVD and Downloads.

30 days time limited evaluation version under Windows. Please contact us for Linux evaluation version.