ViaVoice Is Back

[Janina Sajka]

I'm not holding out on you. I told you everything I know. If you're in
that much of a hurry, go do the research and report back to the rest of
us.

Or, do you think you're the only one who wants to know these details?


hank writes:
> From: "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net>
> 
> 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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> 
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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