I combine market insight, technology, sales and customer needs with one clear goal: to apply modern voice technology where it gives people orientation, information and accessibility in everyday life.
Acapela develops text-to-speech solutions, synthetic voices and custom voice models. My focus: the international transport sector.
Announcements, passenger information and service communication in daily operation.
Reliable announcement systems for local, regional and long-distance services.
Dense frequencies, complex networks, high demands on intelligibility.
Multilingual terminal and gate communication in real time.
Voice-guided navigation and mobility apps for end users and fleets.
Dynamically generated information — from the stop to the disruption notice.
Integrable voice solutions as part of OEM and system architectures.
Cloud services for transport and logistics with scalable speech output.
Voice technology makes information clear, current and accessible — whether it is a stop announcement, a disruption message, a navigation prompt or dynamically generated passenger information.
Four steps, usually in less than a second.
A timetable, delay or disruption arises in the operator’s system.
The data becomes a clear sentence — correctly inflected, in any language.
The TTS engine turns it into audio. In real time, with verified pronunciation.
The passenger hears it on the platform, on board or in the app.
As Head of Market – Transport I am responsible for the strategic development of the international transport market.
Projects and market activities across Europe and North America. My professional environment includes:
For me the focus is not on selling a technology, but on developing long-term, viable solutions.
Transport operators and infrastructure authorities working with Acapela voices — from a brand's own custom voice to multilingual passenger information.
Around 5,400 stations and 21 million travellers a day: a unique, recognisable DB voice informs passengers and makes the brand identifiable by sound as well as sight.
Case studyAround 20,000 announcements a day at Swedish railway stations. Two voices — “Järda” and “Anton” — act as vocal landmarks: female for northbound, male for southbound trains.
Case studyA dedicated announcement voice for Norwegian rail infrastructure, tuned to the pronunciation of local station names.
Further custom voice projects in transport:
References published by Acapela Group at acapela-group.com/applications-en/transport. Projects not named here are listed anonymously on that page.
In transport, that means:
Intelligibility even with background noise and difficult acoustics.
Place and stop names — including special cases and regional forms.
Consistent quality across languages and markets.
Content that changes with operations — generated automatically.
Information that reaches every passenger.
Operational reliability as a baseline, not an add-on.
Flexible deployment models depending on infrastructure and requirements.
Technologies that fit into existing system landscapes for the long term.
So I deal not only with commercial questions, but also intensively with product quality, user experience and technical feasibility.
I try to reduce complex tasks quickly to the decisive questions:
It matters to me to bring different perspectives together and to make decisions not just theoretically sound, but practically workable.
International projects succeed through clear communication and reliable collaboration. I connect:
Beyond my professional work I am interested in technology, mobility, entrepreneurial questions and new forms of collaboration.
I live in Kaufbeuren, Germany, am a father of three and am also involved in school and community projects outside of work.
I value direct communication, independent thinking and people who take responsibility.
For me, technology is a means, not an end. What interests me is how a technical possibility becomes a working, commercially viable application that genuinely helps people.
I'm always happy to talk about: