[ConvenienceWare News] PR: GhostReader 1.6 delivers new voices and Safari 4 compatibility

[ConvenienceWare Support]

Press Release: GhostReader 1.6 delivers new voices and Safari 4  
compatibility

Amsterdam - 16 April 2009 - ConvenienceWare(TM) / AssistiveWare(R)  
today announced the release of GhostReader(TM) 1.6, which delivers new  
voices for Arabic, Greek, Russian, Italian, Turkish, British English,  
and Norwegian. It also provides Safari 4 compatibility and adds new  
large educational discounts. 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 1.6 includes the following enhances:

- New voice languages: Arabic, Greek, Russian.

- New high quality voices for existing languages: Italian male voice,  
Turkish female voice, British female voice, Norwegian male voice.

- Compatibility with Safari 4.

- New localization: Italian (provided by our partner Active Software: http://www.active-software.com 
).

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 1.6 is a free update for existing users. It is a Universal  
Binary requiring Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Voices are currently  
available for the following Acapela Group 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, Greek,  
Arabic, Russian and Swedish. GhostReader itself is localized in  
English, French, Italian 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. New with GhostReader 1.6 are  
the educational M license for up to 150 computers (999 Euro/USD   
excluding VAT) and the educational L license for up to 1000 computers  
(1849 Euro/USD excluding VAT ) and the L+ licenses for 500 additional  
computers (500 Euro/USD excluding VAT). 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

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

AssistiveWare (http://www.assistiveware.com/) is the worldwide leader  
in innovative assistive technology software for Mac OS X and iPhone  
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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