[AssistiveWare News] PR: GhostReader 1.5.1 provides key fixes and enhancements

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Press Release: GhostReader 1.5.1 provides key fixes and enhancements

Amsterdam - 4 June 2008 - ConvenienceWare(TM) / AssistiveWare(R) today  
announced the release of GhostReader(TM) 1.5.1, which provides key  
fixes and enhancements. GhostReader is a powerful, yet easy to use  
multilingual text-to-speech solution for Mac OS X that reads aloud  
PDF, Word and other documents as well as selected text in any  
application. It can also convert any text to audio files, MP3s, or  
bookmarkable audiobooks for playback on iPhone and iPod. Sit back and  
relax while GhostReader reads for you!

GhostReader 1.5.1 includes the following enhances:

- Export to iTunes now: (1) Sets album, album artist, and year to  
default values; (2) Puts the date and time of audio creation in the  
iTunes comments field; (3) Uses the GhostReader logo as default album  
art.

- Fixes spinning cursor issue with Pages 2008

- Acapela Group provided fixes to the following voice issues: (1)  
Activation problem with American Spanish; (2) Occasional crash with  
the Italian Chiara voice; (3) Text encoding problems with Czech and  
Polish voices.

GhostReader can be used by anyone who prefers to listen to text rather  
then read it. Many professionals, writers, educators and students use  
it on a daily basis to save time, to proof read their own writing or  
to learn the pronunciation of foreign languages or to improve their  
reading and listening comprehension.

GhostReader 1.5.1 is a free update for existing users. It is a  
Universal Binary requiring Mac OS X 10.4 or later and provides full  
Leopard compatibility. Voices are currently available for the  
following languages: American English, British English, Czech,  
Finnish, French, Canadian French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Danish,  
Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, American Spanish, Polish, Portuguese,  
Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish and Swedish. GhostReader  
itself is localized in English, French and German.

Pricing for GhostReader starts at 39.95 Euro/USD excluding VAT for a  
single-user monolingual version (includes all voices for a language of  
choice). Multilingual licenses, household licenses, classroom licenses  
and school licenses are also available. GhostReader is also available  
as a bundle with Infovox iVox for system-wide high quality voices that  
can be used with practically all Speech Manager compatible Mac OS X  
applications. Pricing for this bundle starts at 109 Euro/USD excluding  
VAT for a single user license.

A boxed edition of GhostReader is distributed in Europe through  
Application Systems Heidelberg and available in selected European  
countries from Apple Stores, FNAC, Amazon and many Apple Resellers  
throughout the continent.

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

GhostReader: http://www.convenienceware.com/ghostreader.php

Listen to samples: http://www.convenienceware.com/voices.php

AssistiveWare (http://www.assistiveware.com/) is the worldwide leader  
in innovative assistive technology software for Mac OS X that gives  
people back their lives. This includes award-winning KeyStrokes(R) and  
TouchStrokes(R) virtual keyboards, SwitchXS(R) scanning on-screen  
keyboard, LayoutKitchen(R) panel editor, and Proloquo(R) multi-purpose  
speech solution. The ConvenienceWare product line (http://www.convenienceware.com 
) makes the advanced technologies developed by AssistiveWare available  
in cool and convenient applications that can make the life of Mac  
users easier.

AssistiveWare and ConvenienceWare are trade names and trademarks or  
registered trademarks of Niemeijer Consult. VisioVoice, SwitchXS,  
KeyStrokes, TouchStrokes, LayoutKitchen, GhostReader and Proloquo are  
trademarks or registered trademarks of Niemeijer Consult. Infovox iVox  
is a trademark of Acapela Group. All other trademarks are properties  
of their respective owners.
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