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While having apps that can shout out driving directions or read passages from a book are pretty standard, the robotic voice supplying that information no longer has to sound like the computer from War Games. Through a combination of artificial intelligence and original voice talent, 10-year-old IVONA is a leader in developing conversational text-to-speech technology. The company’s new and free (for now) Android app brings a new voice to services like Google Navigation, Book Search and Handcent SMS.

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TTS – Faster and Less Expensive. "It is basically a human right to have TTS in your own language and listen to books in your own language." [Lukasz Osowski, CEO, IVONA Software]. Traditionally the creation of TTS for a language is a very complicated process. Both specialists for the language and a great deal of knowledge about that language are needed. IVONA had therefore determined that they would not be able to build more than ten languages as they wouldn't have the time or money to do so. With the existing technology it would take one or two years to build a single language. It would require billions of dollars and hundreds of people to build TTS for a large number of minority languages. They decided there must be another way, so they researched new technology to build new languages more easily and more quickly.

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In their final year at Gdańsk University, two young men, Lukasz Osowski and Michal Kaszczuk, both with a passion for computer technology, decided that they wanted to build a useful product for people and at the same time use the knowledge they had gained to build a company. It was as important to them that the results of their efforts be useful for people as it was to create a business. They were as passionate about helping people as they were about computer technology. Their expectations have changed considerably since 2001 when they could only dream of achieving what they have actually done over the past ten years.

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...Ivona, a company founded by Lukasz Osowski at Gdansk University 10 years ago, has developed innovative ways of turning text into speech for books, text messages and computer tablets. The use of automatic algorithms has been so successful that Ivona has won a two-year contract to provide software for the Royal National Institute of Blind People....

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IVONA for Developers initiative within the accessibility marketplace has resulted in producing a new accessibility project enabled by a single developer. The initiative is the Talking TV Guide. Created by Ian Sharpe, a visually-impaired application developer who is also a champion member of the Great Britain Paralympics Team.

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IVONA Text-to-Speech, global speech technology provider has collaborated with I6NET, provider of IP/3G telephony IVR/IVVR solutions for Asterisk, to introduce new IVONA Text-to-Speech connector to the VXI VoiceXML (News - Alert) browser for Asterisk platforms.

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IVONA Text to Speech, a developer and provider of text-to-speech technology, unveiled IVONA for Developers, a free online resource for mobile applications developers seeking to integrate voices into text-to-speech (TTS) services. The portal, offers access to the IVONA Speech Cloud Service and Software Development Kits (SDK) for Android, Windows Phone 7 and Linux, with iOS, QNX and RIM/BlackBerry planned for introduction.

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IVONA Text to Speech, a developer and provider of text-to-speech (TTS) technology, yesterday unveiled IVONA for Developers, a new free online resource for mobile applications developers seeking to integrate voices into TTS services.

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Businesses are desperately looking to leverage online marketing to drive growth. But there has to be a way to do it at on the cheap. I recently came by a website called GoBarbra.com, a cool minisite that takes the infamous song, Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce and lets you add your own words to it.

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GM Voices, a major player in professionally-recorded voice prompts for IVR, speech recognition and other automated voice systems, has entered into a partnership with IVONA Text-To-Speech.

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