[AssistiveWare News] VisioVoice 1.2 enhances access to Snow Leopard for vision impaired Mac users

[AssistiveWare Support]

Press release: VisioVoice 1.2 enhances access to Snow Leopard for  
vision impaired Mac users

Amsterdam - 27 August 2009 - AssistiveWare(R) today announced the  
release of VisioVoice(R) 1.2. VisioVoice enhances access to Mac OS X  
for people with vision impairments through a system-wide talking  
interface and typing echo, text and image zoom windows, large cursors  
as well as a document and selection reader. VisioVoice includes a  
license for the natural sounding Infovox iVox voices for one language  
of choice. VisioVoice can also convert text, Word, PDF, HTML and RTF  
documents to audio files and iPod and iPhone-ready audiobooks.  
VisioVoice offers features that are complimentary to Apple's excellent  
VoiceOver screen reader and is primarily intended for those users that  
prefer mouse-based access to their computer over full-keyboard access.

VisioVoice 1.2 new and improved features:

* Full Snow Leopard compatibility

* Full compatibility with Safari 4

* Compatibility with Infovox iVox 2.0 (to be available as public beta  
soon), including non-Roman languages

* Enhanced iTunes export with choice of encoder and background import  
in iTunes

* Speak selection now also works in floating windows such as the one  
used by Help Viewer

* Improved performance and lower CPU use

* Fixes some bugs including one with the Help menu in Leopard

While VisioVoice provides as much support as is technically possible  
for applications that do not support Apple's accessibility API, best  
results can be expected when using VisioVoice with accessible  
applications such as TextEdit, Safari, iChat and others.

VisioVoice is a Universal Binary and can be used on PowerPC and Intel  
Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. VisioVoice is localized in  
English, French, Dutch and Japanese. VisioVoice includes a license for  
Infovox iVox for natural sounding voices in one language of choice.  
Voices are available for the following languages on Mac OS X 10.4 and  
later: American English, British English, American Spanish, Canadian  
French, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Portuguese,  
Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Swedish. The  
following languages require Mac OS X 10.5 and later: Arabic, Turkish,  
Czech, Greek, Russian and Polish.

Pricing for VisioVoice is 249 Euro/USD excluding VAT. Version 1.2 is a  
free and recommended upgrade for existing users.

For more information, a fully-functional downloadable demo and to  
listen to samples of the voices please consult the product page: http://www.assistiveware.com/visiovoice.php

For more information contact AssistiveWare directly or one of our  
distributors such as Origin Instruments Corporation (http://orin.com)  
for North America or Kallysta (http://kallysta.com) for France.

This press release is also available at:
http://www.assistiveware.com/pr.php

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