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ACAPELA GROUP JOINS DAISY CONSORTIUM.


The DAISY Consortium, MONS, Belgium, envisions a world where people with print disabilities have equal access to information and knowledge without delay or additional expense.

Acapela group, the European vocal solutions expert, with a long history and extensive experience of Accessibility issues, brings end users innovative talking solutions which simplify their daily lives, and is proud to join the Daisy Consortium.

The DAISY standard (Digital Accessible Information SYstem), has been designed to make printed information available to people living with reading disabilities and print impairments, at the same time and at no greater cost, in an accessible, feature-rich, navigable NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated.
     2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 62; 1 Bouv. Inst. n.
 format, worldwide.

Using text to speech, DAISY Digital talking books talk·ing book
n.
A recorded reading of a book, designed for use by the visually impaired.


Talking Book
Noun

Trademark a recording of a book, designed to be used by the blind

Noun
 meet reader requirements by providing a level of access that has never been possible before. The DAISY specifications are already transforming the reading and learning experiences of thousands of visually impaired people around the world.

"Acapela voices already speech-empower DAISY products. We have been supporting this initiative since its inception, and we are now very happy to officially and actively join the Consortium. Our dedication and commitment to the Accessibility community puts us in an excellent position to understand and work towards improving Accessibility for everyone. We bring to the DAISY Consortium our considerable experience in providing multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual  
adj.
1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary.

2.
 solutions to vocalise the printed word which will help promote the DAISY initiative worldwide," said Lars-Erik Larsson Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson (15 May, 1908 - 27 December, 1986) was an important Swedish composer of the 20th century.

He was born in Åkarp. He studied with Ellberg at the Stockholm Conservatory (1925-1929) and with Alban Berg and Reuter in Vienna and Leipzig (1929-1930), then
, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Acapela Group.

Acapela Group is dedicated to the Accessibility field and works closely and in a committed way with the community to help make information accessible to everyone, whatever their disability.

More information on the DAISY Consortium can be found at website http://www.daisy.org.

About Acapela Group

Acapela Group, the leading European voice European Voice is an English language newspaper owned by The Economist group. The newspaper gives an account of the activities of the key European Union institutions – the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of Ministers.  expert, invents text-to- speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 25 languages.

We help you build your 'voice strategy', to enhance the promotion of your business to customers through the spoken word, and add audible A protected MP3 file format from the Audible.com audio download service. See Audible.com.  value to your services and applications for improved market recognition and audio-brand visibility.

Our speech solutions allow you to turn any written text into natural speech files, using over 50 High Quality standard voices or your own synthesised voice talent.

Acapela can answer all your text-to-speech needs and provide perfect vocalisation Noun 1. vocalisation - the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; "a singer takes good care of his voice"; "the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations"
phonation, vocalization, vox, voice, vocalism
 whether for voice integration and development, online & on demand use, audio files production, or ready to speak products for personal accessibility use.

Our international team of experts is fully dedicated to developing the best voice solutions, adapted to your particular project and market specificities. Over 850 companies around the world have already adopted Acapela high quality voices to voice-empower their products and services, in very different markets.

Check out http://www.acapela.tv - the sparkling laboratory of Acapela Group, for a fresh and exciting take on how speech synthesis speech synthesis

Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of
 can now be used: acapela.tv is a showcase and test playground that shares the possibilities of speech synthesis with Internet users Internet user ninternauta m/f

Internet user Internet ninternaute m/f 
, allowing them to discover innovative and attractive ways to make smart use of speech applications online.

For more information, visit http://www.acapela-group.com,
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