ViaVoice Is Back

[hank]

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http://fwd.pulver.com/callme.php?userid=91013
email
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: ViaVoice Is Back


> 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
>
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