ScanDis and Acapela Group sign a strategic partnership for high end support to the dyslexic community in the Nordics

The new agreement strengthens the historic relationship between the two companies to deliver ever more accurate and innovative solutions to people suffering from learning and reading disabilities, at a worldwide level, based on a long term strategic cooperation.

Acapela’s voices already speech enable ScanDis’ software suite, designed to support people with learning disabilities including dyslexia.

Founded in 1991, ScanDis is a leading accessibility software developer and solutions supplier based in Denmark. ScanDis’ partnership with Acapela started in 1998 when ScanDis decided to integrate Acapela’s market leading high quality text-to-speech in all its applications.

“Our know-how in the area of learning disabilities and state-of-the-art software products, combined with Acapela’s high quality voices and its continuous development of new voices and languages, have been the key elements of our successful partnership. We are very enthusiastic about reinforcing our long term partnership with Acapela, and look forward to further developing this strong relationship” said Kim Nørkjær, co-founder of ScanDis.

The software suite developed by ScanDis helps end users to progress more autonomously in their reading and writing processes. The company’s offer for people with learning disabilities includes the following products:

• ViTal (Read OnScreen) - is a background text-to-speech application working as a screen and text reader in Microsoft Windows.

• ViTex (Print OnScreen) - is an easy to use print-to-speech OCR programme, which associates the scanning of printed pages or books with text-to-speech capabilities enabling the text to be read aloud in a very simple way.

• ViseOrd (Write OnScreen) - is a comprehensive and easy to use word completion programme with speech feedback on suggested words.

Acapela’s text-to-speech adds the powerful and natural dimension of voice to ScanDis applications to give immediate speech feedback. With the market leading high quality human sounding voices from Acapela Group the users of ScanDis’ software can work more autonomously on Microsoft Windows getting speech feedback whenever needed.

“The partnership with a high profile specialist such as ScanDis fully contributes to achieving an essential mission for our company which aims, leaning upon 20 years of experience, to improve accessibility for everyone, helping thousands of users in their daily life” said Lars-Erik Larsson, Acapela Group CEO.

With this new agreement, ScanDis will also distribute Acapela end user products designed for visually impaired people: Infovox Desktop and Infovox iVox solutions.

More information at www.scandis.dk