Audio Description: Worldwide Text-To-Speech Audio Description for Cavena With Acapela Voices

Audio Description: Worldwide Text-To-Speech Audio Description for Cavena With Acapela Voices

Cavena Audio Description package provides easy subtitling in 30 languages, with Acapela voices

MONS, Belgium, September 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --



Discover the full offer during IBC 2014, in Amsterdam Sept 12-16, on Cavena booth.
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Audio description (AD) is a growing requirement for broadcasters, and serves the needs
of visually impaired people who want to be able to access TV content. AD has established
itself as a media access service for blind and partially sighted people across a range of
countries, for different media and types of audiovisual performance (e.g. film, TV,
theatre, opera) and is at the heart of European projects for the development of adequate
Accessibility policies.



A few words about Audio Description
Audio description is basically a narrator talking through a presentation, describing what
is happening on the screen or stage during the natural pauses in the audio.



To meet the demand for AD, Cavena, a leading manufacturer of subtitling systems, has
selected Acapela Group to give a voice to its text-to-speech audio description package,
which incorporates the flexibility and cost advantages of subtitling.



"Subtitling is one of the most critical parts of our customers offer to their viewers.
By matching advanced programming and system design with industry standard hardware we
achieve high reliability and upgradeability. The text-to-speech package will enable SBS
Discovery Media to meet users demands and open up easy TV viewing to the visually
impaired. Users who cannot read the small text at the bottom of the TV screen, will now be
able to listen to it. Furthermore, it will ease access for illiterate people or users that
find it difficult to follow written subtitles," says Henrik Moberg CEO, from Cavena.



"We are very enthusiastic about working with Cavena. The capacity of text-to-speech to
turn any written text into natural audio will meet the demand from visually impaired users
to access more content. Our synthetic voices offer a highly natural result to the end user
while permitting the localization of programs in over 30 languages. Audio subtitling can
even be seen as a new way to facilitate audiovisual localization - and we look forward to
that," says Lars-Erik Larsson, CEO of Acapela Group.



Users will have the choice of either the original speaker's voice in a foreign
language or the same content in their own language. Audio subtitling will also open up
access to a wide range of foreign language audiovisual products, not usually accessible to
the visually impaired community as localization was, until now, often handled with written
subtitles rather than audio dubbing.



About Acapela Group:http://www.acapela-group.com
At Acapela Group, we invent speech solutions to vocalize any written content with
authentic and original voices that express meaning and intent. Over 100 synthetic voices
in 30 languages are ready to give a voice to any content, producing a natural and pleasant
audio result, by turning written input into speech. We can create the voice your company
needs. Just for you. This is Acapela bespoke expertise. Let's talk!



About Cavena:http://www.cavena.se
Cavena Image Products AB
Cavena is a leading manufacturer of subtitling systems, with a worldwide base of installed
systems operating 24/7. Cavena provides state of the art subtitling solutions for
everyone, from the free-lance subtitle translator to the multiple-channel playout
centre.The choice of more languages anytime and anywhere includes subtitles. We assist
more and more customers in transcoding, for example DVB or teletext in and DVB out.
Temporary storage by recording subtitles is also possible, allowing editing and censorship
before the material is re-transmitted. We also assist with OTT solutions, both integrating
with streaming vendors and stand-alone solutions. We are delivering text to speech audio
description solutions to our customers, as it's now a legal requirement in parts of
Europe.




Acapela Group

CONTACT: Caroline Houel Telephone number : +33562247104 E-mail : press@acapela-group.com


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