With the release of a Russian Female Voice Tatyana, IVONA Software, an Amazon company, has expanded its growing portfolio to 45 high-quality voices in 18 languages.
Each additional natural sounding voice and language improves text-to-speech user experience for developers, businesses, OEMs and our partners, allowing them to reach new customers. IVONA Software provides text-to-speech solutions applicable to many areas of life. All new voices are developed using the award-winning BrightVoice technology. BrightVoice is the result of 10 years of research and development to produce synthesized speech that is virtually indistinguishable from professional voice over recordings.
IVONA CEO Lukasz Osowski noted: “Our mission is to deliver the best possible speech user experience for a wide range of devices and applications requiring high-quality Voice User Interfaces. We are laser-focused on maintaining and increasing the current rapid pace of voice development for text-to-speech solutions in various languages, while ensuring that our speech engines are optimized to meet the requirements of device manufacturers.”
IVONA Text–to-Speech (TTS) comes in different configurations and footprints for a variety of mobile devices, desktop, network and server applications or speech cloud. IVONA TTS solutions are used to enhance e-reading experiences on smartphones and tablets. Over 2 million mobile users downloaded IVONA voices and IVONA TTS HQ for Android from Google Play to replace the standard Voice User Interfaces (VUI) on their mobile devices and apps.
IVONA also partners with assistive technology developers to make digital media accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired. All added voices such as “Tatyana” bring new opportunities for these individuals to actively participate in society and find new educational and employment opportunities.
IVONA Software works closely with innovative e-Learning application developers. Our high-quality text-to-speech voices assist foreign language learners and students with learning disabilities who can save text documents as audio files and transfer them to their media players and mobile devices. Busy professionals may want to save news articles and audio files for reading later or create pre-recorded messages for telephone response systems.
We also assist telecommunications companies as they seek for solutions that allow reading out loud dynamically created content (e.g. account balance or customer data), and interpret any text, long or short, in a high-quality, natural-sounding voice, without the time and expense of a recording studio.
Sample IVONA voices at www.ivona.com and learn how you can benefit from IVONA Text-to-Speech.
About IVONA
Established in 2001, IVONA Software develops award-winning text-to-speech technology for use in the voice user interfaces on mobile devices, computers, communication systems and services. Its text-to-speech products have been recognized as industry leading in terms of natural voice quality, accuracy and ease of use. Today, IVONA offers one of the fastest growing voice and language portfolios with a variety of voices in over a dozen languages with more in development. The IVONA suite includes a wide range of text-to-speech solutions for consumers, developers, and business customers. Developers use IVONA´s tools to incorporate text-to-speech into their user interfaces. IVONA´s business customers span a variety of industries, including accessibility, public announcements/transportation, telecommunications, e-learning and more. Individual users looking for high-quality voice user interface for a variety of applications can take advantage of IVONA voices for Android by downloading them from Google Play. IVONA has a long-standing commitment to accessibility and works closely with the largest organizations supporting blind and visually impaired people all over the world, including the Royal National Institute of Blind People and the DAISY Consortium. IVONA Software is a subsidiary of (AMZN) Amazon.com. For more information, please visit www.ivona.com.