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The Business Oscar's winners
This is the end of the fourth edition
of the "Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006" contest. Łukasz Osowski
i Michał Kaszczuk from Ivo Software won the award in "New
Business" category. Additionally the organizer of the event -
international corporation Ernst&Young - decided
to distinguish Ivo Software for "being competitive for the
worldwide solutions" and for the "innovative attitude
which is an example for other young polish entrepreneurs." Except for prestige Ivo Software received a special prize which is halfearly Ernst&Young coaching for the
chosen matters of business guidance, that can open the doors for the
future expansion on the international market.
The best text-to-speech software in the world
the best Englih speaking text-to-speech software in the world"
A voice from a computer, Sztuczna Inteligencja
An interview by Anna Meller with Łukasz Osowski, the director of IVO Software.
Excerpt
- Łukasz Osowski: Until now, nobody in Poland even tried to design a modern TTS which could read the given text with natural - sounding intonaltion and timbre. The TTS containing this characters is difficult to produce because of its complicated nature and interdisciplinary solutions and technology needed.
Text-To-Speech software - build it yourself!, Software 2.0
( "Syntezator mowy - zbuduj go sam!" Software 2.0 )
The director of IVO Software, Łukasz Osowski introduces the reader to the way Polish TTS is designed and explains many terms conected with this subject.
Talking websites of IDG.pl
( "Gadające strony w IDG.pl" Gazeta Prawna )
The article is dedicated to the implementation of TTS on IDG.pl website. This solution together with the TTS introduced by IVO Software shows numerous advantages like quich and comfortable access to the written news, articles and other content for example.
"The potential market for TTS products is growing rapidly. Nowadays, thanks to the improvement of the quality of TTS and it's better and more human-sounding nature, we can observe the speech generated by computers being used in more an more new areas.[...]"
Talking IDG.pl websites
( "Gadąjace strony w IDG.pl" gazeta.pl )
The article informs about application of the IVONA TTS - Website version to the implementation of "cyber-speaker" module that reads the content of IDG.pl web portal. The module is called Audiobot.
"The TTS that can be used now on IDG.pl website is a totally innovative product created by Polish programmers from IVO Software. You only need to point out which text should be read and in a few seconds the Audiobot will talk to you through your PC speakers."
IVONA's got the voice
( "Głos ma IVONA" Puls Biznesu )
The article is a summary of an interview with director of IVO Software - Łukasz Osowski. The author presents sphere of activity, history and achievements of IVO Software. She concentrates mostly on the future plans of development of the newest technologically-advanced product, which is the IVONA TTS.
"We plan to still improve IVONA and develop its specialized versions together with new languages. We want also to design products based on human-like voice for home users - Łukasz Osowski and Michał Kuszczuk say."
Route to perfection
The article describes the achievements of the company on the field of TTS. It puts an emphasis on the great quality of the voice presented by their IVONA TTS and its ability to compete with foreign companies and their products for a share of the market.
IVO Software from Gdynia won the competition...
( "Firma IVO Software z Gdyni wygrała konkurs..." Gazeta Wyborcza )
"The Award Ceremony were placed in the Ministry of Economic Affairs & Labor. IVO Software specialises in text-to-speech solutions which is used in telecommunications and which has become a great tool for the people with sight problems. The jury particularly prized the company's latest solution, which is the IVONA TTS announced by the experts as one of the best Polish text-to-speech systems in the international market."