TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » IVONA Software http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:12:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Is Amazon’s Acquisition of Ivona good or bad for disabled e-library users? http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazons-acquisition-of-ivona-good-or-bad-for-disabled-e-library-users/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazons-acquisition-of-ivona-good-or-bad-for-disabled-e-library-users/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:45:13 +0000 David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/?p=77395 Well, guess which Seattle-based  megaconglomerate has just bought Ivona Software (Web site here, Wikipedia entry here)—perhaps the world’s best provider of text to speech to use with e-books and other texts? That’s right, Amazon. It’s already using an Ivona voice in the Kindle Fire, and Ivona tech is also powering “Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch.” Too bad those [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-amazons-acquisition-of-ivona-good-or-bad-for-disabled-e-library-users/feed/ 0 Amazon Acquires IVONA Software http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-acquires-ivona-software/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-acquires-ivona-software/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:22:36 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=77355 This probably won’t come as too big of a surprise, but it was just announced this morning that Amazon has (finally!) acquired the 10-year-old text-to-speech software company IVONA Software for an undisclosed sum. (Not quite as exciting as the Zappos acquisition, but still … ) The company currently offers voice and language proficiency in 44 voices and in 17 languages; [...]

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