Audio Guides for iPhone – Hiking and Tourist Trails: Just Follow the Guide With Geolives-M and Acapela Voices!
MONS,
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
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
synthesized voice from Acapela. Additional voices can be acquired for
1.99
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
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 contact@geolives.com 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.
SOURCE Acapela Group