Acapela TTS voices empower VisioVoice for Mac OS X, AssistiveWare's upcoming product.
Designed for blind and vision impaired Mac users, VisioVoice adds multilingual support to Apple's excellent VoiceOver technology as well as provides a number of new speech and vision related features to enhance access to Mac OS X. VisioVoice is designed to remove visual barriers by making it possible for non-English vision impaired users to make use of Apple's VoiceOver while boosting access for all vision impaired users. VisioVoice will also enhance VoiceOver with the naturally sounding, high quality voices of the Acapela Group. A step ahead for AssistiveWare, who has already removed the physical barriers from Mac OS X with KeyStrokes, its virtual keyboard and with SwitchXS, its scanning on-screen keyboard and has taken away language and speech barriers with Proloquo, its multipurpose speech solution, also speech-enabled by Acapela. "Acapela high quality golden tones successfully speech enable Proloquo and open up the TTS multilingual choice for Mac OS X users. VisioVoice will naturally provide Acapela TTS as well, offering to the end user a perfect homogeneous voice persona through the entire speech-enabled interface." said David Niemeijer, AssistiveWares CTO. Bundled with VisioVoice, Acapela high quality voices actively contribute to improving accessibility for everyone, offering the most natural interface to users looking at speech technology as a daily tool and essential technology to keep communicating.
