Talking Partner for Actors now Available on the iPhone: Get Offbook Faster With Scene Partner and Acapela Voices!

MONS, Belgium, November 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Scene Partner is an iPhone app designed for actors, theater companies and writers looking for a smart way to help actors get offbook faster, using Acapela speech synthesis, an outstanding talker to partner with. Actors can now practice their lines anytime, on their own, to make their rehearsals and performances even better.

Save time & move on to the fun part!

Acapela text to speech, which transforms any written text into natural speech in real time, with the richness of the language and full respect of breath groups, pauses and punctuation, contributes to offer with Scene Partner a unique and highly efficient talking interface to help actors memorize their lines anytime, anywhere, 24/7.

Scene Partner helps actors learn lines quickly and easily, whether they normally use voice recording or the printed page. Advanced Acapela text to speech plays back lines, cues, or whole scenes with pleasant voices. The actor can even record their own voice and the voices of the fellow actors, and merge them with the TTS playback. Last but not least, actors can use their own scripts when signing up by creating a secure Private Library.

Just download the app, create an account (within the app or at http://www.scenepartnerapp.com/) and access all of the scripts in Scene Partner's Public Library. You can also set up your own Private Library or download scripts from the Libraries of your favorite Theaters.

'The potential of the iPhone as a tool for volunteers and professionals in theater, film and TV is beginning to be realized with the launch of Scene Partner, a revolutionary new app that helps actors get offbook fast using Acapela super natural voices.' says J. Kevin Smith, Owner of mytheaterapps.com, LLC, the developer of Scene Partner.

A product of mytheaterapps.com, Scene Partner is the first in a line of productivity and community building mobile applications that will help dramatic artists in ways that we have never imagined.

Pricing is $4.99 and includes 2 English Acapela voices , available on the Apple appstore

    Who it's for:

    - Actors: use Scene Partner to get offbook.
    - Theaters: upload scripts to the Scene Partner website for use by actors
    that are cast in a show or sides for actors to use in auditions. -
    Writers: upload original scripts to Private Library on the Scene Partner
    website or add the original scripts to the Public Library.

    Advanced features

    - Uses advanced and super natural speech synthesis from Acapela
    - Integrates your voice recording with Scene Partner's TTS voices
    - Combine your voice (and the voices of your fellow cast members) with
    the TTS voices during audio playback - Provides multiple playback and
    recording options: listen to "Just Me," "Just My Cues," "Me and My Cues,"
    or "Full Scene". - Divides your script into Acts, Scenes and Characters
    automatically - Customizes your script based on your needs
    - Highlights your lines in yellow or your choice of 9 colors
    - Inserts voice memos to capture blocking, character or director's notes
    - Edits your script's text on the fly
    - Works with most electronic file formats: plain text, Word, rtf, html
    and PDF (accessible format) using the online conversion utility at
    http://www.scenepartnerapp.com - Keeps your content safe with secure
    accounts on Scene Partner's website and private libraries stored on their
    servers

About Acapela Group, http://www.acapela-group.com

Acapela Group, the leading voice expert, invents text to speech solutions to give your content a voice in up to 30 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, http://www.acapela-for-iphone.com to develop talktative apps and http://www.acapela-vaas.com, the acapela on-line service for smart vocalization

SOURCE Acapela Group