ViaVoice Is Back

[hank]

how much is the tts engine?
where can we download it?
to call me directly click this url.
http://fwd.pulver.com/callme.php?userid=91013
email
hank at hanksmith.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 8:44 AM
Subject: ViaVoice Is Back


> >From GCN's printer friendly version of the news story at:
>
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2&stor
y.id=24949
>
> IBM brings text-to-speech to the Linux desktop
>
>    02/16/04
>    By Patricia Daukantas,
>    GCN Staff
>    IBM Corp. researchers are bringing text-to-speech capabilities to the
Linux desktop.
>    Previously, production versions of IBM's text-to-speech engine had been
available only for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms, said
>    Rich Schwerdtfeger, an IBM software group accessibility strategist and
chairman of IBM's Accessibility Architecture Review Board.
>    A few years ago, the company had made a beta Linux version of the
speech engine available for downloading, but took it offline when it stopped
working
>    with later versions of the Linux kernel.
>    The speech engine, together with a screen reader, converts text on a
computer screen to sound but does not enable users to issue voice commands
to the
>    computer, Schwerdtfeger said.
>    Wizzard Software Corp. of Pittsburgh is distributing the IBM-developed
ViaVoice speech engine in its Interactive Voice Assistant line of products,
>    Schwerdtfeger said.
>    List pricing for the IVA Business Starter Kit, which assists users with
e-mail, dictation and Internet applications, is $95 per seat. The IVA Global
>    Business Suite, with additional translation and presentation
capabilities, and the IVA Communications Pack, with support for phone-to-PC
applications,
>    each cost $120 per seat.
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka
> Email: janina at rednote.net
> Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175
>
> Director, Technology Research and Development
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> http://www.afb.org
>
> Chair, Accessibility Work Group
> Free Standards Group
> http://a11y.org
>
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