Nuance and Acapela Partner

Nuance and Acapela Group are teaming to offer international language text-to-speech software for European customers. Both companies will join technology forces to offer customers Nuance's voice automation solutions and Acapela's international language text-to-speech (TTS) software. The Nuance-Acapela combination will support 23 languages.

With TTS, companies can deliver text-based, changing information over the telephone. It is designed for directory assistance applications, e-mail reading, account updates, order management and other dynamic content.                              

Nuance will continue to offer Nuance Vocalizer TTS, currently available in U.S., U.K. and Australian English, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish, with German available shortly.

Nuance will resell Acapela's Telecom TTS software in 23 languages, including French, Dutch, European Spanish, Italian, Swedish and more.
Acapela has made its TTS engine fully compatible with Nuance Vocalizer TTS and the Nuance Vocalizer Integration Framework.