[vicsireland] Re: TTS Engine Released for the iPhone and iPod Touch
- From: "Ciaran Ferry" <Ciaran.Ferry@xxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:37:13 -0000
Yep you're right Darragh, I remember reading something about that
somewhere alright.
Did it work well?
Were there many "real" buttons on that device? As far as I know there
are only one or 2 on the iPhone and Blackberry Storm.
Out of interest - how did text input work? How would you know if you've
pressed say for example the number 2 or the number 5 given that they'd
be located pretty close to each other on the screen?
Ciaran
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh
Sent: 27 November 2008 12:24
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vicsireland] TTS Engine Released for the iPhone and iPod
Touch
Very interesting,
Actually code factory have already cracked that didn't they? They took
over the touch screen, divided it into quadrants and by using hardware
keys for other purposes they allow users to drive the PDA via the
screen. From using it on the QTek 9000 I can say their way definitly
works. Only problem was the QTek 9000 was really slow.
Darragh
Blog and Linux accessibility walk-through's: www.digitaldarragh.com
-----Original Message-----
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ciaran Ferry
Sent: Thu 27/11/2008 12:00
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] TTS Engine Released for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Now all that needs to be done is for someone to figure out how someone
with poor vision can interact with a touchscreen!
Answers on a postcard...
http://www.acapela-group.com/acapela-for-iphone-26-speech-solutions.html
Voice-empower content for an ever more intuitive use of applications
designed for the Apple App Store.
- Available December 2008 -
Acapela for iPhone has been designed to offer to iPhone community
developers a High Quality speech engine specifically adapted to meet
their needs.
Games, educational programmes, finance, health and fitness,
productivity, social networking, etc; whatever the application, Acapela
text to speech naturally enriches the visual and touch-sensitive
interface with pleasant and natural voices.With a simple and easy to
manage business model.
Applications designed for iPhone and iPod Touch use groundbreaking
technologies such as the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometers, GPS,
real-time 3D graphics, and 3D positional audio. With Acapela for iPhone,
developers can now easily add a vocal dimension, in many languages.
Acapela for iPhone has been designed both for developers used to
'mobile' environment software and Mac programmers. Thanks to the High
Level API written in Objective C, developers will be able, with a
minimum of code lines, to quickly and easily integrate speech synthesis
into their application for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Key Benefits
> Text to Speech engine specifically adapted to iPhone developers needs
> Easy integration of voice for enhanced intuitive interface
> Very natural and pleasant voices
> Multilingual offer
> Choice between male and female voices
> Business model adapted to Apple App Store philosophy
Key Features
> High Level API in Objective C
> Easy to use and to integrate: 3 lines of code enable to add a speaking
voice to the application
> Multilingual: 18 languages and 34 voices available
> Word synchronization capability
> 2 voice formats available: LF* (~25MB/voice) and HQ**
(*low footprint - **High Quality)
> Setting of speed and volume
> Output to file or to speaker/headphone.
> Text tag through special commands
> Sample source code
Languages and Voices
HQ TTS: very High Quality Text To Speech resulting in a very natural and
pleasant-sounding voice which has never been closer to the human
speaker.
LF TTS : Low footprint Text To Speech (~25MB/voice)
Ciaran Ferry
Web & e-Services,
ICT Group, ESB,
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