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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Amazon announced on Thursday that it has acquired text-to-speech company IVONA Software for an undisclosed amount. Ivona's technology is currently used in Amazon’s Kindle Fire for text-to-speech services, voice commands, and the device’s “Explore by Touch” and “Voice Guide” features. “Explore By Touch” gives users an auditory signal when they swipe their fingers across the Kindle Fire's menu, while “Voice...

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, November 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IVONA Software extends its Text-to-Speech portfolio yet again with the release of English voices: Nicole - Australian English, Geraint and Gwyneth - Welsh English (speaking also traditional Welsh). Together with existing British English and American English Voices, IVONA offers an impressive set of 14 English-speaking voices. Andrew Furlong, Technology Support Manager at Vision Australia, the nation's leading...

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, October 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IVONA Software today announced that its IVONA SDK, available through IVONA Developer Program ( http://www.ivona.com/developers), now features support for iOS, including iPhone and iPad devices. This, together with support for Android, MeeGo, Linux and Windows Phone 7, makes IVONA SDK consistent, easy to use Text to Speech technology for all developers interested in giving the top Speech User Interface experience to their...

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA, Spain, February 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --- IVONA Voices are Available via Cloud Service for any Connected Device on any Platform, as Well as On-Device SDK Integration for Android, Windows 7 and LinuxIVONA Text to Speech, an award winning developer and provider of high quality text-to-speech technology, today unveiled IVONA for Developers, a new free online resource for mobile applications developers seeking to integrate top quality voices into text-to-speech...

BARCELONA, Spain, February 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- IVONA Text to Speech, an award winning developer and provider of Text To Speech (TTS) technology, announced today that it has again extended its platform of available voices to include American Spanish, Castilian Spanish, French and German. The new voices are built on the company's latest and most advanced Text To Speech platform, IVONA 2, which leverages the company's BrightVoice technology to create voices that deliver the most...

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, October 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- IVONA Text-To-Speech presents another breakthrough in its next-generation IVONA 2 release, which features BrightVoice(TM) technology, an instant text-to-speech engine and extended new language model. BrightVoice enables unparalleled voice fluency and quality and was used to develop the latest American voices, Kendra and Joey. Complementing the increased quality, the new TTS engine delivers up to ten times faster speech generation. All...

ALPHARETTA, Georgia, September 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- IVONA(R)Text-to-Speech (TTS), creator and winner of multiple awards for most human-sounding synthetic voices and speech output products, is proud to announce the appointment of Craig Campbell as Director of Business Development in the Americas. Mr. Campbell, a recognized speech evangelist with 10-years experience, will lead IVONA's entry into the US marketplace where he will oversee partnerships and sales activities. A recognized...

GDYNIA, Poland, April 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- At http://www.ivona.com, the IVO Software company has presented new IVONA Text-to-Speech voices speaking American English - Kendra and Joey. The new voices are already winning over the world - they make it possible to listen to spoken emails on the leading international e-mail marketing platform. The Email to Speech service launched by the Implix company - the e-mail marketing leader, uses the top-notch IVONA Text-to-Speech solution,...

GDYNIA, Poland, March 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The IVO Software Company is presenting the award-winning IVONA Text-To-Speech (TTS) in the cutting-edge Software as a Service (SaaS) model. From now on, all mobile applications and services may speak with a human voice, offering more functions and greater accessibility without the need for installing any additional software. You can apply the TTS solution to all mobile operating systems (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian...

GDYNIA, Poland, March 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The IVO Software company is presenting the latest IVONA Text-To-Speech Studio package, intended for professional use in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The IVONA Studio package allows significant reduction in costs of producing voice-over recordings. In a traditional studio, the process of voice-over recording with a lector takes weeks and is very costly. From now on, due to the use of incredibly natural and expressive voices of...