Tag: IVox - Latest Releases

Oct 29, 2009 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 2.0. Infovox iVox 2.0 offers Snow Leopard compatibility, significantly improves performance and responsiveness and adds a number of new voices for the following languages: Arabic, French, German, Flemish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. These voices work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application, including VoiceOver, Preview, TextEdit, VisioVoice and ConvenienceWare GhostReader.

Aug 28, 2009 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced a public beta of Infovox iVox 2.0. Infovox iVox 2.0 brings Snow Leopard compatibility, significantly improves performance and responsiveness and adds a number of new voices for the following languages: Arabic, French, German, Flemish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. These voices work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application, including VoiceOver, Preview, and TextEdit.

Feb 24, 2009 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 1.3 with new voices and new languages: Italian, British, Russian, Greek and Norwegian. Infovox iVox provides natural-sounding voices for multiple languages that work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application. Also, as of today the School license (max 150 computers) has been expanded to no longer be limited to deployment in a single school.

Jan 13, 2009 - AssistiveWare today announced that at BETT it will preview Proloquo2Go, which uses Acapela Group's forthcoming iPhone text-to-speech to provide a full-fledged communication solution on the iPhone and iPod touch for people who cannot speak. Also previewed at BETT is the upcoming version of Infovox iVox, which introduces new British, Italian, Greek, Norwegian and Russian voices for the Mac. Come to the AssistiveWare booth SN47 to see this and other software.

Sep 18, 2008 - AssistiveWare today announced that Apple Solutions Experts for Education iansyst, realizing the importance it's educational customers award to having access to high quality British voices, is now including the British Infovox iVox voices with every single Mac sold.

Jun 16, 2008 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare have announced the discontinuation of Acapela Group's Speechissimo text-to-speech solution with cross-grade offers to Infovox iVox and GhostReader. Acapela Group and AssistiveWare's partnership has resulted in two products with even higher quality voices, a greater range of languages and more features.

Jun 05, 2008 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the discontinuation of Acapela Group's Speechissimo text-to-speech solution with cross-grade offers to Infovox iVox and GhostReader. Acapela Group and AssistiveWare's partnership has resulted in two products with even higher quality voices, a greater range of languages and more features.

May 23, 2008 - AssistiveWare today announced the release of Proloquo 2.0, a major new version of the industry-leading communication solution for Mac users who cannot speak. Version 2.0 adds a lot of value: It now includes LayoutKitchen, a panel editor that allows users to create their own image-based communication panels, it adds the natural-sounding Infovox iVox voices for a language of choice, it has enhanced export to iTunes and many more improvements.

Oct 18, 2007 - Acapela Group has decided to permanently lower the price of the Infovox iVox voices, which can be used with any speech using application on Mac OS X. Originally introduced as a solution for the accessibility market, it was found that also many educators and consumers wanted to use these natural-sounding voices. With the new prices the best voices ever are now within reach of educators, students, people with disabilities as well as any other Mac user who likes to hear his Macintosh speak.