Hi Everyone, Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today announced a public beta of Infovox iVox 2.0. Infovox iVox 2.0 brings Snow Leopard compatibility, significantly improves performance and responsiveness and adds a number of new voices for the following languages: Arabic, French, German, Flemish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. These voices work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application, including VoiceOver, Preview, TextEdit, AssistiveWare VisioVoice, ConvenienceWare GhostReader, and Adobe Acrobat.
Today's press release: http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php#PR280809 Infovox iVox 1.3, the currently shipping version, is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". A complete rewrite of the core iVox speech engine was necessary to make Infovox iVox 64-bit compatible and ready for Snow Leopard. Despite the major engineering efforts, Infovox iVox 2.0 is offered as a free update in order to facilitate the migration to Snow Leopard for those people who rely on these natural sounding voices to use their computer. Because of the large number of languages available in Infovox iVox, not all languages will be available immediately as part of the public beta. The first languages to be released will be American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Canadian French, Spanish, American Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian. This was done about an hour ago. More languages will follow in the coming weeks. Languages are made available in public beta step by step to allow for basic internal tests before a language is made available as part of the public beta. We want to take this occasion to thank the beta testers for their excellent feedback. We are currently seeking testers (max 2 per language) for the following languages that are not yet in public beta: Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Flemish, Danish, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Turkish, Arabic. In order to be accepted as a tester (first come first serve basis) you need to be an experienced VoiceOver users and native speaker of the language and also be able to read and write in English. You also need to be familiar with Infovox iVox (have at least used the demo in the past) but do not necessarily need to own a license. There is no remuneration for testing, but if you provide good feedback we may provide you with a free license for a language of choice. Cheers, david. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
