One2OneMate will incorporate text-to-speech technologies from Acapela Group into its StudentMate eLearning hardware and software to improve literacy among schoolchildren.

Using Acapela text to speech, students can hear any text read out loud from a word processor, notes, PDF Viewer, or Web browser with either male, female, girl, or boy voices.

Other key components of StudentMate include a large colour touch screen, wireless and Ethernet connectivity, software, email capabilities, full-size laptop keyboard, mouse support, and MP3 play back.
 
"We are very proud to speech enable such an innovative tool as StudentMate. This innovative approach is fully compliant with Acapela’s one, which aims to help interfaces become more natural and intuitive to better learn, play, discover, share and progress, for people of all ages," said Lars-Erik Larrsson, CEO of Acapela Group.