Assistiveware Releases Public Beta of the Infovox iVox Voices
— ♣AssistiveWare today announced a public beta of Infovox iVox v2.0. Version 2.0 brings Snow Leopard compatibility, significant improvements to performance and responsiveness, and adds a number of new voices including Arabic, French, German, Flemish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish. These voices work with virtually any Speech Manager compliant Mac OS X application, including VoiceOver, AssistiveWare VisioVoice, ConvenienceWare GhostReader, and Adobe Acrobat.
Infovox iVox 1.3, the currently shipping version, is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”. A complete rewrite of the core speech engine was necessary to make Infovox iVox 64-bit compatible and ready for 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.
Because of the large number of languages available in Infovox iVox, not all languages will be available immediately as part of the public beta. The first languages to be released will be American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Canadian French, Spanish, American Spanish, Swedish, and Norwegian. More languages will follow in the coming weeks.
The full press release on InfoVox iVox v2.0 is available here.