Hello to all you Dutch bloggers and web site owners out there! We have just added the Dutch male and female voices this morning so that you can speech-enable all your web content to the world! Dutch is our 9th language and since we propose female and male voices for each language we now have 18 voices for our ReadSpeaker webReader service. We hope you enjoy our latest language addition!

We are now proud to release our webReader plug-in for MovableType 4. By using this plug-in you can implement the ReadSpeaker webReader service on your blog or website built with MT. You will find the plug-in on the “Implement webReader”-menu option ones you have signed up and created an account on http://webreader.readspeaker.com

We have decided to sponsor the European Accessibility Forum held on the 27th of March in Frankfurt Germany.

Web accessibility is of great importance not only for people using screen readers and other assistive technology but also for everybody else. Adopting and practicing the web standards is key to make web content accessible for more people regardless of device, browser type and operation system.

When I attended and spoke at the CSUN Conference on Disability 2009 in Los Angeles last week I had the opportunity to talk to the authors of the WCAG 2. I was glad to see that speech enabling is finally seen as enhanced accessibility, especially to make the text content more understandable. So in short; implementing a ReadSpeaker service on your website can help you to conform to some of the guidelines.

If you are attending the European Accessibility Forum in Frankfurt and would like to meet up with me, please contact info@voice-corp.com to set up a meeting.

See the Conference website for more information about the conference: http://eafra.eu/

Yesterday Drupal.org announced a new module that implements ReadSpeaker webReader for the Drupal CMS. We have not yet fully test the module ourselves, but it is available on the Drupal website.

http://drupal.org/project/webreader

Hey the list keeps on getting longer and longer! After US English, British English, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, we have just launched this morning the German version of ReadSpeaker webReader. Germany is one of the most active markets in terms of number of web sites and blogs and we are very excited about giving German web site owners and bloggers both male and female voices to speech-enable their content.

We are launching today new language capabilities for our webReader service! Italian, Portuguese and Spanish web sites and blogs can now speech-enable their content. We have already received many requests from these countries content owners and from other ones as well who write in these languages to add webReader and we are very pleased to add these new languages to our existing ones : US English, UK English, French and Swedish. This brings us every day closer to making webReader a new universal way of communicating online text content via audio to as many users as possible. Watch this space since we will soon announce other additional languages as well!