Munich, October 2025 – CBTL is setting a new benchmark in secure speech technology by integrating ReadSpeaker’s speechServer into its EVOLUTION³ production platform. This collaboration allows organisations in industry and defence to produce natural-sounding audio directly within EVOLUTION³ — entirely on-premises, with no external processing required. This ensures that sensitive data remains within the company’s IT infrastructure, guaranteeing complete data sovereignty and compliance in over 75 languages.
This development makes EVOLUTION³ an even more powerful production environment for complex multimedia learning content. Teams can produce multilingual and accessible audio as part of their workflow, maintaining consistency and reducing time to delivery. Seamless integration of the text-to-speech engine ensures consistent pronunciation and high-quality voice output, while simplifying localisation and maintaining full control over data, processes and quality standards.
Secure Automation for Scalable Training
Security and compliance are of the utmost importance in defence, government and other regulated sectors. By integrating ReadSpeaker technology into EVOLUTION³, CBTL can create professional voiceovers entirely within a secure environment. This prevents data exposure, accelerates production, and enhances didactic quality by ensuring consistent terminology and pronunciation across all languages.
The integration brings automation and inclusivity together, allowing authors to easily adjust parameters such as speed or intonation, while built-in accessibility features ensure that everyone can use the software. The result is a reliable, scalable and secure production process that shortens development cycles and minimises coordination effort.
Secure and Seamless Expansion of the EVOLUTION³ Production Platform
The new module extends the automation capabilities of EVOLUTION³, making speech generation an integral part of the authoring workflow. Audio can now be generated, edited and reviewed in just a few simple steps, with no need for external tools or exports.
- Seamless integration: Speech generation takes place directly within the EVOLUTION³ workflow.
- No external tools: Everything happens within the protected platform environment.
- Intuitive user experience: Create and edit audio files with just a few clicks.
- Faster production: Generate multilingual audio files instantly without manual steps.
- Consistent quality: Consistent pronunciation and pitch across all languages and courses.
- Integrated accessibility: Effortlessly supports compliance with EAA and WCAG guidelines.
- Maximum information security: All processing takes place on-site and is fully data sovereign.
Technology That Builds Trust
The collaboration between CBTL and ReadSpeaker shows that advanced e-learning production and information security are compatible. By combining CBTL’s digital training expertise with ReadSpeaker’s neural text-to-speech technology, a future-proof ecosystem is created that unites security, scalability and user-friendliness.
“Security and quality are central to both ReadSpeaker and CBTL,” said Jürgen Pischel, Managing Director, ReadSpeaker DACH. “By directly integrating our local speechServer technology into EVOLUTION³, customers have full control over their data and processes. This allows companies to create high-quality, multilingual audio content entirely within their own secure environment. Together with CBTL, we are setting new standards for how organizations in the defense, government, and industrial sectors can create multilingual, compliant, and secure training materials.”
“Together with ReadSpeaker, we are redefining what secure content production looks like,” says Johannes Schnell, CEO, CBTL GmbH. “EVOLUTION³ has become the backbone of efficient and secure e-learning, ensuring that organizations can train on a large scale without compromising on security or quality.”
About CBTL
CBTL has over two decades of experience in developing e-learning systems that are focused on security, flexibility, and scalability. The EVOLUTION³ platform combines multilingual and content-variant management, single-source publishing, integrated project and feedback management, and seamless interoperability.
As it’s a browser-based solution, it supports real-time collaboration, detailed role management, and on-site deployment. This ensures data privacy and process reliability for organisations that must follow strict compliance and security requirements.
About ReadSpeaker
ReadSpeaker is a global leader in neural text-to-speech technology, trusted by more than 10,000 organisations in 70 countries. The company has a collection of more than 200 realistic voices in 75 languages. It provides high-quality audio experiences for education, business and government.
Its speechServer solution is designed for secure on-premises deployment, ensuring that all speech generation occurs within an organization’s protected IT infrastructure – making it ideal for industries where data protection and compliance are very important.