The Acapela TTS voices for NVDA product already supports several languages: English (US), English (UK), English (Australia), English (India), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (US), Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Italian and Greek. As a leading player in speech, fully committed for decades to making the life of users easier, it’s our responsibility to support projects such as NVDA, which are key to information access, education and employment for millions of visually impaired people in the world’ comments Lars-Erik Larsson, CEO of Acapela Group. ‘Accessibility is very important to Acapela. And Acapela will donate 10 Euros each time a unit of Acapela TTS voices for NVDA is sold. It will give users access to text-to-speech in different languages, so making the NVDA experience much richer. The Acapela TTS voices for NVDA add-on is easy to install and easy to use. With Acapela TTS for NVDA, we offer users of the screen reader easy access to high quality and performing voices. In early 2014 we announced the integration of the NVDA screen reader into infovox4 and a donation to NV Access for each unit of infovox4 sold. Since its creation in April 2006, NVDA has been downloaded more than 70,000 times, is available in over 43 languages and used in 120 countries.Īt Acapela Group we unreservedly support this great open source project. ‘With Acapela TTS Voices for NVDA, they can also gain access to high quality & performing voices that will enhance the NVDA experience with speech fully adapted to their use.’ NV Access’ mission is to make sure none of these people miss out on using a computer just because they can’t afford an expensive screen reader’ says Michael Curran, Executive Director from NV Access. ‘Around 285 million people in the world are blind or visually impaired. Beware that voice data are very big (100-200MB) so a strong and stable internet connection is recommended.ħ/ After a successful installation, select the Acapela voice in your TTS-compatible application.NVDA is the only screen reader for Microsoft Windows that is totally free, yet fully functional and portable. This requires an internet connection and may take some time. You can type your own text in the "Type some text here to try" area.ĥ/ The ‘Buy’ icon will open an in-app billing window, asking for confirmation of your purchase.Ħ/ After purchase, the voice will appear with a download icon. List of available languages: Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch(Belgium), Dutch(NL), English(Australia), English(India), English(Scotland), English(UK), English(US), Faroese, Finnish, French, French(Canada), German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (North America), Swedish, Swedish(Gothenburg), Swedish(Scania), Swedish (Finland), Turkish.ġ/ Please check that you have a valid internet connection, as the app needs to contact our server to get the voice list.ģ/ Browse the list of voices retrieved from our server.Ĥ/ You can test any voice online. The wide range of languages covered opens up language learning opportunities. Immediate audio feedback improves word recognition, increases the ability to pay attention and remember information and helps students to recognize and fix errors in their own writing. Text-to-speech specifically helps individuals that read slowly or with difficulty, people who want feedback when writing or help with spotting errors when proof-reading, those who suffer visual stress when reading text on paper or on a screen or want to simultaneously see and hear. The Acapela portfolio for Chromebooks includes authentic children voices as well as adult ones so that students can choose according to their age group and preferences, to feel fully comfortable with the voice they learn with. Voice capability is reinventing the way we all engage with devices and Acapela voices are helping to broaden the native voice offering on Chromebooks with another 30 languages and over 100 voices. ******** High Quality voices by Acapela Group ********Īdd up to 100 voices in 30 languages to your Chromebook. Then you will be able to use them with any TTS-compatible application (like ChromeVox). The extension is free, so you can try all of our voices in an online mode, but then you must buy voices to integrate them to your Chromebook system. IMPORTANT: This extension is only for Chromebook devices running Chrome OS. Efficient, fast and high quality speech-synthesis engine.
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