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Acapela Group (stylized acapela group) is a Swedish-Belgian company that develops text-to-speech software and services. It was formed in December 2003 from a combination of three European companies specializing in vocal technologies, Babel Technologies (Belgium), Infovox (Sweden) and Elan Speech (France).
Today, Acapela provides text-to-speech capabilities for languages including Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.