Audio Guides for iPhone - Hiking and Tourist Trails: Just Follow the Guide With Geolives-M and Acapela Voices!

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Feb 02, 2010, 06:39 ET

MONS, Belgium, February 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Geolives, editor of maps & GPS solutions for outdoor activities, has launched Geolives-M, an iPhone application designed to search and share audio guides, vocalized by Acapela, the expert and inventor of innovative vocal solutions, in more than 20 languages and a wide choice of voices.

Wherever you are in the world, visiting a capital city or hiking off the beaten track, Geolives-M allows you to select routes sorted by activity around your GPS location.

Follow the guide!

Find your way with only an iPhone, without the need for a bulky book or printed map.

Throughout your itinerary, and according to your GPS positioning, you automatically access images, youTube videos and written information read out loud by a synthesized voice. You also get acquainted with Wikipedia geo-localized articles (already more than 80 000 articles available in 13 languages) which are read to you, on the spot, by highly natural voices from Acapela.

20 languages and a wide choice of voices to show you the way Acapela speech synthesis is your perfect guide, reliably turning written information into speech, reading proper names, dates and figures with precision. Choose from among Geolives-M's repertory of voices the one, female or male, which will be your companion throughout your route.

'Geolives-M must provide high quality and fast to download audio guides. Acapela voices allow us to perfectly vocalize information from any text format, with an excellent audio result in many languages. It was the right choice for our application which offers to the end user a cheerful talking interface which fully meets their needs' said Yves Peeters, Geolives General Manager.

Community websites allow users to make the most of their experiences with additional features and to share their favorite trails and itineraries on line. Geolives.com enables the selection of specific topographic maps for a range of European countries and routeyou.com paves the way to over 180 000 hikes and outdoor activities the world over.

    Geolives-M - Features

    - Access to maps from Google Maps worldwide and possibility to order
      topographic maps (offline) for some European countries.
    - Search feature for places or sights.
    - Search for trails by criteria: type of activity, nearness, duration,
      etc.
    - POI associated with downloaded routes are highlighted (by pins).
    - Record and classify trails by activity, save and send to e-mail or
      Geolives account.
    - Unit display in miles/feet or km/m.
    - Real time trail information (distance, time, etc.)

Sold at EUR 4.99, the Geolives-M application is provided with one synthesized voice from Acapela. Additional voices can be acquired for EUR 1.99 /voice.

Available languages : Czech, Dutch NL, Dutch BE, English UK, English US, Danish, Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish .

About Geolives

Geolives has been offering geo-localized audio guide solutions to community websites (B2C) and professionals (B2B) since January 2010. Geolives aims to provide content editors working in tourism and tourist offices complete solutions to create and distribute guides for the GPS Smartphone consumer market.

For more information [email protected] http://www.geolives-media.com and http://www.geolives.com

About Acapela Group

Acapela Group, the leading European voice expert, invents text to speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 25 languages. Our speech solutions allow you to turn any written text into natural speech files, using any of our 50 High Quality standard voices or your own synthezised voice talent. Acapela can answer all text to speech needs and provide perfect vocalization whether for voice integration and development, online & on demand use, audio files production, or ready to speak products for personal accessibility use.

Check out http://www.acapela.tv - the sparkling laboratory of Acapela Group, for a fresh and exciting take on how speech synthesis can now be used: acapela.tv is a showcase and test playground that shares the possibilities of speech synthesis with Internet users, allowing them to discover innovative and attractive ways to make smart use of speech applications online.

http://www.acapela-group.com

SOURCE Acapela Group