Acapela Text-To-Speech Now Available in Imagetalk Symbol Writer

Imagetalk Symbol Writer for the Nokia 7710 multimedia smartphone is a symbols-based mobile communication solution with built-in Acapela text-to-speech capabilities. It offers non-verbal and non-literate individuals the chance to communicate with their socially important networks both mobile and face-to-face, which can help them lead a more independent life.

Acapela text-to-speech gives them the power of voice, providing speech support in all modules and situations with adjustable volume for different acoustics. Acapela text-to-speech helps to improve the comprehension of the symbols and messages and also to enhance the user-friendly interface. To hear or to voice-enable a message, a simple click on the “speak” button or speech setting such as “select & speak” and “show & speak” allows the user to hear or speak a message with the text-to-speech capability.

“Imagetalk develops assistive software enabling communication regardless of time and place between language-impaired persons and their communities. Multimodal user interfaces are extremely important for individuals with different types of speech and language disorders. Acapela text-to-speech is a mainspring technology actively contributing to ease the life of Imagetalk Symbol Writer users. We need a wide variety of supported languages and a commitment to develop text-to-speech, especially on the fast-growing Symbian platform, and that Acapela can offer,” explained Juhani Selänniemi, managing director of Imagetalk.

Imagetalk Oy, is a software company focusing on multimodal special-interest user interfaces, and dedicated to providing innovative mobile accessibility solutions. Imagetalk has created a user interface based on visual symbols and speech synthesis for those of us who cannot use text- or speech-based means of communication.

Source: Acapela