[AssistiveWare News] Infovox iVox 2.0 gives Mac OS X Snow Leopard voices in 22 languages

[AssistiveWare Support]

Amsterdam, 29 October 2009 - Acapela Group and AssistiveWare today  
announced the release of Infovox iVox 2.0. Infovox iVox 2.0 offers  
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.

After an extensive public beta, Infovox iVox 2.0 is now ready to give  
Mac OS X a natural-sounding voice in 22 different languages. A  
complete rewrite of the core iVox speech engine was necessary to make  
Infovox iVox 64-bit compatible and ready for Mac OS X 10.6 "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. All Infovox iVox users are advised to upgrade to  
version 2.0 before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Infovox iVox is Universal Binary and can be used on PowerPC and Intel  
Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

The product includes all voices available for a language of choice.  
The following languages are available 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. Due to the changes required for Snow  
Leopard, Icelandic is no longer supported.

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

Infovox iVox: http://www.assistiveware.com/infovox_ivox.php