Acapela Group's Assistive Technology Personalizes Voices for Children and
  Adults
From: Speech Technology - 08/01/2016

More than 1,000 companies in very different markets across the globe have
already adopted Acapela Group’s text-to-speech voices, but the company's
assistive technology also helps thousands of disabled children around the
world who are now speaking as a result of its unique technology.

Acapela, based in Belgium, broke the mold on augmentative and alternative
communication (AAC) solutions when it started to offer children with
communication difficulties a voice of their own. Traditional AAC systems had
relied on adult voices.

But disabled children aren’t the only ones benefiting from Acapela’s
innovation in speech technologies. With the My-Own-Voice service, people with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other disorders that slowly deprive
them of their ability to speak can capture and preserve their own voices in
text-to-speech (TTS) format before losing them. This groundbreaking invention
will enable users to keep speaking with their own voices rather than the
standard anonymous synthetic voices.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/Editorial/Cover-Story/The-2016-Speech-Industry-Star-Performers-Acapela-Group--112685.aspx

Links:
Acapela Group
http://www.acapela-group.com

My-Own-Voice (with video 7:52)
http://www.acapela-group.com/voices/voice-replacement