Infovox iVox 1.2 adds new voices and a pronunciation editor

Amsterdam – 29 April 2008 – Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced the release of Infovox iVox 1.2 with new voices and a pronunciation editor. Infovox iVox provides natural-sounding voices for multiple languages that work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application. As of today there are also a number of new educational licenses available: The Infovox iVox – GhostReader Teacher Kit and an Educational Audio Use and Publishing License.

Infovox iVox 1.2 is a free upgrade for existing users that adds a pronunciation editor that allows users to add abbreviations or change the pronunciation of words. It also introduces a number of new voices and languages: Eliska and Sabrine for Czech, Ania for Polish, Snorri for Icelandic, Sanna for Finnish, Elin for Swedish, and Baris and Ceren for Turkish. The Czech, Polish, Icelandic and Turkish voices require Mac OS X 10.5. The other voices require 10.3.9 or later.

Infovox iVox can be used with Apple’s VoiceOver screen reader as well as many Mac OS X applications, including Preview, TextEdit, AssistiveWare’s VisioVoice and Proloquo, ConvenienceWare GhostReader, and Adobe Acrobat. The voices also work great with the leading educational software, such as Kurzweil 3000 for Macintosh version 3.0.4 and 4.0 and TextHelp’s Read and Write Gold for Mac version 2.1.0 and later. This means that teachers can now use this best-of-breed software with the industry leading Infovox iVox voices to enhance the learning experience of their students.

Infovox iVox voices are sold per language with each language consisting of one or more male and/or female voices. All languages contain the American English Heather voice as a bonus. All languages, except the Scandinavian ones, are available for a suggested retail price of US$ 99 in North America and 99 Euro excluding VAT everywhere else. This is for the first language. Additional language packs are available for a suggested retail price of US$ 49.50 in North America and 49.50 Euro excluding VAT everywhere else. Scandinavian languages are available for a suggested retail price of 219 euro excluding VAT and as an additional language for 109.50 euro excluding VAT. Bundles of Infovox iVox with GhostReader are also available starting at US$ / Euro 109 for a single user.

In addition to the existing multi-user and educational classroom and school licenses there are now two new educational licenses:

1) An Educational Audio Use and Publishing License for US$ / Euro 199 excluding VAT, which permits use of generated audio files on up to 50 iPods as well as the publication of educational material on the internet (with some restrictions).

2) An Infovox iVox – GhostReader Teacher Kit for US$ / euro 299 excluding VAT, which includes licenses for Infovox iVox and GhostReader for a language of choice as well as an Educational Audio Use and Publishing License.

For more information, a fully-functional downloadable demo and to listen to samples of the voices please consult the product page.

For more information contact AssistiveWare directly or one of our distributors such as Origin Instruments Corporation for North America or ordiTICE for France.

- Ricky Buchanan