Acapela Group and AI Sign Global Partnership for Advanced Multilingual Speech Solutions
August 09, 2017 at 09:15 am
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Acapela Group and AI have Signs a Global Partnership for Advanced Multilingual Speech Solutions to enhancing their speech solution offerings and providing their customers with an enriched catalogue of languages and voices. The partnership allows cross distribution of AI and Acapela TTS solutions. Acapela multilingual TTS, available in 34 languages, will be exclusively distributed in Japan by AI while Acapela Group will provide an improved version of its Japanese TTS resulting from the collaboration outside of Japan. With this partnership, Acapela Group looks forward to expanding the adoption of Acapela multilingual voices in Japan while AI foresees answering the needs of foreign residents and tourists in Japan for voice-enabled multilingual services, which should considerably increase by 2020 with the Olympic Games.
AI,Inc. mainly engages in research and development of Japanese speech synthesis engines, sales and supporting of its products. The corporate products include AITalk and AITalk Internationa. The Company's main business model is the licensing business. It also engages in contract development of customer's original voice dictionary. The corporate services include cloud services and support services. Cloud services engage in development of voice synthesis service utilizing cloud environment and provision of service via the Internet. Support services provide technical support services to customers licensing corporate products. For consumer products, it engages in sales of packages that make it easy to create audio files.