[gui-talk] Fwd: IVONA Accessibility Package

[Steve Pattison]

Prices in this message are in US dollars.  -Steve.

From:    Susan Thompson susan at sthompson.net
To:      VIP-L vip-l at freelists.org

Hi all,

after the information from the original email I'm forwarding, I've
pasted some of the informational text from the page at the link
referenced in the message.

-----Original Message-----

IVONA Accessibility Package
 
Good day all:

I am not associated with this company but thought that their offer
could be of interest for some blind people regarding its price and
quality of the synthetic voice.
 
Poland is celebrating blind people from all over the world. In
celebration of White Cane Day in Poland, the organization that develops,
delivers and supports IVONA Text To Speech is introducing IVONA
Accessibility Package for worldwide sale. For the duration of next week,
all who purchase this package online using the promotion code: 2B8LW3
will receive a $10 or 6 Euro discount.
 
From their promo:

"IVONA really makes a difference in creating a digital experience for
everyone. Our comprehensive and reliable solutions provide comfortable
access to computer and Internet resources to the visually impaired.

IVONA Accessibility Package offers:

- Award-winning, high-quality Text-To-Speech voices.
- High intelligibility (speech can be accelerated up to four times with no
loss of quality).
- NVDA screenreader (IVONA - preconfigured) included.
- Rapid responsiveness."

The packages are immediately available at a fraction of the price of
competing products. From the sale of each IVONA Accessibility Package,
$5 is dedicated to supporting the organization developing a free NVDA
screen reader. To learn more about this package and make a purchase
please visit the following links: www.ivona.com/accessibility and
www.ivona.com/article.php?set_lang=us&aid=402&cid=3

Some text pasted by me from the above page follows:

IVONA Accessibility Package helps the blind and visually impaired
people

IVONA really makes a difference in creating a digital experience for
everyone. We are proud to present the cutting-edge Accessibility Package.
This comprehensive and reliable solutions provide comfortable access to
computer and Internet resources to the visually impaired. At a fraction
of the price of competing products IVONA Accessibility Package offers:
award-winning, highest-quality Text-To-Speech voices, high intelligibility
(speech can be accelerated up to four times without losing the quality),
rapid responsiveness, NVDA screenreader (IVONA - preconfigured) and
IVONA Reader.

IVONA Accessibility Package "For visually impaired people a computer
with a Text-To-Speech solution is the only way to access the Web
resources, quick communication and normal work opportunities" , says
Lukasz Osowski, CEO at IVONA Text-To-Speech. - "IVONA Accessibility
Package, which we introduce for sale worldwide, is also a breakthrough
because of the price, an order of magnitude lower than other solutions.
Our mission is to help blind people, regardless of place of residence."
The IVONA Accessibility Packages include TTS voices developed with
BrightVoiceT Technology (British English or American English) and the
IVONA Reader (text reader) which makes it easier to actively access the
Web, listen to the books' contents and individually create audiobooks.
All IVONA TTS voices offer 22 kHz sound sampling frequency quality and
the SAPI5 standard. For additional information on the IVONA Text-to-Speech
technology for the blind and visually impaired please visit www.ivona.com/accessibility
.
"The package includes also the special NVDA program designated for
reading computer screen content (screenreader), currently one of the
world's best solutions of that type." - says Lukasz Osowski. - "Moreover
we support the development of NVDA screenreader project, by making a
special donation from every IVONA accessibility package that we sell". As
a result of BrightVoice Technology being applied to the newest IVONA
Voices, the sound of the spoken words, whether a single sentence or an
entire book, is exceptionally natural and fluent, as if being read by a
real person. New IVONA 2 release can intelligently interpret addresses,
dates, numerals, abbreviations, accents in words, sentence intonation, as
well as intonations in virtually any complex linguistic phenomena,
along with the precise manner of audio/speech conversion.

About IVONAR Text-To-Speech

IVONA is widely recognized and awarded as the highest-quality, most
natural-sounding TTS system in the world. The IVONA suite of products
includes a wide range of specialty TTS solutions for business, telecommunications,
SaaS, mobile, and home use. Among its most notable innovations, IVONA
developed a Rapid Voice Development technology which is able to generate
custom branded voices for use in IVONA TTS in under 60 days. In support
of its long-standing commitment to accessibility, the Company works
closely with Royal National Institute for Blind and DAISY Consortium , the
largest organizations supporting blind and visually impaired people in
the world.

Regards Steve
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