Assistiveware has announced today two new text-to-speech products for Mac OS X: VisioVoice and Infovox iVox.
VisioVoice is a product for blind and vision impaired users providing a number of speech features to enhance access to Mac OS X. These include conversion of Text, Word, HTML, PDF and RTF files to audio files or iPod-ready iTunes tracks and multilingual support to Apple's excellent VoiceOver technology (initially French and Dutch).
VisioVoice is bundled with InfoVox iVox, a new product that incorporates technology from Acapela Group. InfoVox iVox allows the high quality voices of Acapela Group to be used by any Speech Manager compliant application on Mac OS X, including TextEdit, Preview, Acrobat Reader, Proloquo and AppleWorks, as well as many educational titles. Infovox iVox can also be used with Tiger's built-in VoiceOver screen reader, and Dutch and French users now have the possibility to hear all the VoiceOver menus and messages in their own language by using Infovox iVox together with VisioVoice.
Both products can be used on PowerPC and Intel Macs. The products include all voices available for a language of choice. Initially, the following languages will be available: US English, UK English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish. For most languages male and female voices are available (certain languages include multiple male and/or female voices). US English even includes two child voices. All non-American English languages include one American English female voice as a bonus.
For more information, see http://www.assistiveware.com.
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