Speech Market: Acapela Group Opens a US office in Chicago

CHICAGO, November 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Acapela Group, the bespoke voice solution specialist based in Europe, has opened a branch office in Chicago, to strengthen its position and provide advanced support and services to customers and partners in North America.

Leading voice expert with 30 years of experience behind it, Acapela Group invents voice solutions to give content and interfaces a voice, using any of the 100 natural voices or a custom voice, specifically created for a customer. Acapela's voices give the say to tiny toys as well as server farms, screen readers, robots, cars & trains, smartphones, IoT and much more.

"Acapela Group has had an active and growing customer base in the US for many years. This office in Chicago in an important step for Acapela Group in our development in North America. We now look forward to strengthening our local position, offering advanced support and services with our US-based office, and fully accompany our customers in their vocal projects, especially for public transport." comments Lars-Erik Larsson, CEO of Acapela Group.

Acapela Transport, The Acapela Group Business Unit dedicated to Transportation, has been particularly active in the US and North America, helping Transit companies comply with Section 508 accessibility laws by supplying speech solutions and custom voices that provide pleasant and precious real-time information services to passengers.

"Accompanying our customers throughout the full voice process is a major concern at Acapela. Each speech project is specific and needs to be globally understood within its domain. With the new office in Chicago, we aim to better understand, and deliver adapted answers to provide full satisfaction to our customers while increasing the awareness and deployment of our voice solutions" adds Lars-Erik Larrson.

Acapela Transport customers in North America already include Olea Kiosks, Meadowgate Technologies, IED Audio, Fullpower, Digital Forces, Digital Acoustics, CT Transit, Computer Science Corporation, Metro Transit, Magnifis, Southern Technologies, MTS and Clenney Communications for USA and AVLTRACK, Halifax Regional Municipality, Ineo Systrans Canada, Bombardier and Toronto Transit Commission for Canada.

The office in Chicago will be headed by Lionel Caubet, Business Development Manager.

Contact address:
Acapela Group
Chicago office
4118 N Nashville Ave, Chicago, IL 60634
USA
Phone: +1-(312)-451-1605

About Acapela Group, http://www.acapela-group.com

Acapela Group, voice expert with 30 years of experience behind it, invents speech solutions to give you the say.  We are fully dedicated to developing innovative voice solutions and we are set up to add audible value to your services and applications, to enhance your business through the spoken word.

Our wide range of voices vocalize your content into a natural audio result, with meaning and intent, in up to 34 languages. Our voices inform, guide, educate, tell stories, help to communicate.

Our repertoire includes very different voice personas for very different uses. From the individual voice for a speech impaired person to the custom-made voice for an organization, our international team of experts is here to create the voice you need.

Communication, Transport, Education, Accessibility, Mobility, Robotics … over 1000 companies in the world have already adopted Acapela high quality voices to give the say to their products and services, in very different markets.

About Acapela transport http://www.acapela-transport.com

Acapela Group Transport Business Unit is dedicated to Public Transport with features and tools specially designed for public transportation companies.

We accompany you in Public Transport with Voice Announcements using text-to-speech. Acapela's TTS is currently being used by Public Transportation companies all over the world.

SOURCE Acapela Group